ABSTRACT
The aim of the study was to observe whether the Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy [MBCT] is effective in easing the life burdens, alleviating mental depression and also improving the quality of life of female caregivers of Alzheimer's patients. In this investigation, the quasi- experimental method was used. In this research, statistical society is women caregivers that they are members of Alzheimer's association. For this purpose, 20 of the women caregivers of Iranian Alzheimer's association, 10 of experimental group and 10 of control group, were selected. The methods of sampling were according to the type of available samples and were placed randomly in the two groups of experimental and control subjects. Eight therapy sessions were held and these two groups were asked by the researchers to respond to the Quality of Life questionnaire [SF-36], Burden of Care Givers questionnaire [CBI] and Hamilton questionnaire. These replies were gathered by researches once before the beginning of each session, once at the end of each therapy session and also once 2 months after the end of the therapy was completed. For analyzing has been used SPSS-16. The Covariance test and Wilcoxon test were used to analyze the gathered data. The observed findings in the 2-month follow ups show that this therapy has long term effects on depression and easing the burden of life, but it has minimal to no long term effect on the improvement of the quality of lives of study subjects. The results indicate that [MBCT] is, in fact, effective in improving the quality of life and reducing the depression and burden of lives of the female caregivers of Alzheimer's patients
ABSTRACT
The main purpose of this study was to investigate effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction [MBSR] on decreasing depression in patients with chronic low back pain. The statistical population included patients with chronic low back pain who appointed the pain clinics in Tehran. Among whom 23 participants were enrolled with convenience sampling and randomly assigned into two equal experimental and control groups. The questionnaire was consisted of the depression subscale of short form known as the depression anxiety stress scale [DASS -21] which was completed by the patients in pre-test and post-test formats. The results of this research, using Mann-Whitney test, showed that the mean depression score in the experimental group has reduced significantly in comparison with the control group. According to the findings of our study, the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Therapy is significantly effective in decreasing depression in patients with chronic low back pain