Distress tolerance, Acceptance, and Patience in Mothers with Mentally Impaired Children: The Effectiveness of Suffering-Based spiritual skills training

The purpose of this study was recognition the suffer of mothers with mentally disabled children in order to design an appropriate educational package and determine effectiveness of suffering-based spiritual skills training on distress tolerance, acceptance and patience in them. The research method was qualitative and through interviews, research needs were extracted from parents and counselors and the quantitative method was quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design with control group. The statistical population of all mothers had a mentally disabled child in the Farzanegan school in Gorgan in 2019. Among the experts and consultants of Gorgan Exceptional Administration and Schools, 4 people were purposefully selected to approve the educational package. Eventually, 30 people were selected by targeted sampling method and then randomly divided into two groups of experiments and witnesses (15 experiments and 15 witnesses). The experimental group was trained in spiritual skills for 8 90-minute sessions and the control group was not given training. Turbulence tolerance scale, Bond et al, acceptance questionnaire and Patience and colleagues patience questionnaire were administered. To analyze data from multivariate analysis of covarianceUsed. The results showed that Suffering-Based spiritual skills training is effective in distress tolerance, acceptance and patience of mothers with mentally disabled children and is recommended as a non-pharmacological, non-invasive and low-cost method, Spiritual training programs should be based on the needs of parents in order to increase distress tolerance, acceptance and patience.