The Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Parenting Education Program on Quality of Parent-Child Relationships and Parenting Stress of Parents of Children Age Preschool in Tehran City

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based parenting education program on quality of parent-child relationships and parenting stress of children (under preschool age) in Tehran city.

This study is an applied one, and quasi-experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest design with control group and two month’s follow-up was used to collect the data. The statistical population was all parents of children in Tehran city in year 1399. In first, 30 people were selected by available sampling method and then randomly divided into experimental and control groups (15 experimental and 15 control). For the parents of children in the experimental group, the mindfulness-based parenting education program was implemented in 8 sessions, each session lasting two hour. The instruments used in this study include the parent child relationship scale of Pianta (1992) and parenting stress index–short form of Abidin (1995). Data analysis was performed using SPSS software in two sections: descriptive and inferential (analysis of variance with repeated measures and post-hoc Bonferroni).

Results indicated that mindfulness-based parenting education program, significantly improvement quality of parent-child relationships and parenting stress of children (under preschool age) in Tehran city and the results have had enough consistency in the follow-up period, as well (P<0.05).

The study findings proposed that mindfulness-based parenting education program can be used as an effective intervention in order to improvement the quality of parent-child relationships and parenting stress.