The impact of mindfulness-based cognitive group therapy(MBCT) on reduction of couple burnout in women withmultiple sclerosis (MS)

This study aimed to investigate the impact of mindfulness-basedcognitive group therapy (MBCT) on reduction of couple burnout inwomen with multiple sclerosis (MS). This was quasi-experimentalstudy, included experimental group and control group, and conductedpre-test and post-test. The population consisted of all women with MSwho were visited in Al-Zahra hospital in Esfahan. Using conveniencesampling method, 34 women (based on Pines’s couple burnout measure(1996) (CBM)) with couple burnout degree of higher than four wererandomly distributed in two groups of 17 participants. Then, themindfulness-based cognitive therapy was conducted on experimentalgroup in 8 sessions, each session 90 minutes. The control groupreceived no training. In this study, the analysis of covariance was usedto test hypotheses. The results showed that mindfulness-based cognitivetherapy impacted on reduction of couple burnout and its components(P=0.001)

Keywords:

mindfulness , based cognitive therapy , couple burnout , multiple sclerosis