چکیده:
Objective: some recent evidences have been recently achieved on the beneficial effects of mindfulness based on stress reduction on stress reduction and perceived anxiety and thus improve mental disorders caused by stress. Because women-headed households are one of the groups in the society that need to be studied because of the progressive problems they are experiencing as one of the most affected sections of society, the present study attempted to assess the efficacy of mindfulness-based stress reduction on improvement of the decreased perceived stress and symptoms of depression among this group. Methods: This quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest approach and following-up included 400 women aged 25 to 50 years female-headed households covered by Ilam City Relief Committee. The population was randomly divided into control and experimental groups and the preserved stress and depression situations were assessed using the Cohen's Perceived Stress Scale and the Beck Depression Inventory II respectively. Mindfulness-based stress reduction was implemented as an 8-week training program and all subjects were reassessed after intervention completion. Results: The baseline characteristics of study subjects in two groups were similar. The mean preserved stress and depression scores improved both significantly in the experiment group after intervention as well as within the follow-up time, however the pointed changes were not revealed in control group. Conclusion: Mindfulness-based approach to stress reduction had a positive effect on perceived stress and depression symptoms in female-headed households
خلاصه ماشینی:
The Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Reducing the Perceived Stress and Depressive Symptoms among Female-He-- aded Households Abdolmahammad Safari1, Jahanshah Mohammadzadeh2*, Vahid Ahmadi3, Shahram Mami4 Abstract Objective: some recent studies suggested the beneficial effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction on stress reduction and perceived stress, leading to the improvement of mental disorders caused by stress.
Given that female- headed households are one of the most vulnerable groups of society that need to be studied, the aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of mindfulness-based stress reduction on the reduction of perceived stress and depressive symptoms among this group.
MBSR is a type of psychological-educational intervention that helps people to practice mental- physical meditation and is used to reduce stress and improve health (Asuero et al.
In recent years empirical evidence suggests that mindfulness-based intervention (MBIs) are effective in improving the mental or physical health-related outcomes in a range of clinical and non-clinical populations (Gotink et al.
Studies have shown that MBSR has positive effects on stress reduction, leading to the improvement of mental disorders caused by stress (Momeni, Omidi, Raygan, & Akbari, 2016).
Thus, the present study aimed to assess the efficacy of mindfulness-based stress reduction on reducing perceived stress and depressive symptoms among Iranian female-headed households.
Discussion The present study aimed to investigate the efficacy of a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program on reducing perceived stress and depressive symptoms in female-headed households in Ilam.
3% Table 2: The effect of mindfulness therapy based on depressive symptoms and perceived stress in female-headed householdsZhong, M.