Applied Psychology

Applied Psychology

Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on decrease of symptoms of depression, rumination and emotion regulation in pregnant women

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Mehdi Zemestani 1
Zahar Fazeli Nikoo 2
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology
2 University of Kurdistan
10.29252/apsy.13.1.119
Abstract
Aim: The purpose of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of
Mindedness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) on reducing the symptoms of
depression, rumination, and emotion regulation in pregnant women. Method:
A quasi-experimental design with pre-test, post-test and a one month followup with control group was used. The statistical population included 500
pregnant women referred to health centers in the town of Ghorveh in Sanandaj
province in Iran who were one to six months pregnant. Through available
sampling method, 263 women who met the inclusion criteria were selected
and out if these, 30 participants were randomly assigned to two groups of
MBCT or control. Research tools were Beck’s (1996) Depression InventoryII, Rumination Response Scale (Nolen-Hoeksema & Morrow, 1991),
Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Gross & John, 2003) and the MBCT
program which was adapted from Segal, Williams, & Teasdale (2018) and
Dimidjian, Goodman, Felder, Gallop, Brown, & Beck (2016). This was
administered to the experimental group during eight weekly, 90-minute
sessions and collected data was analyzed using mixed model repeated
measures analysis of variance. Results: Findings showed that MBCT had a
significant effect on improving depression symptoms (F= 55.06, P= 0.001),
rumination (F= 25.88, P= 0.001), and emotion regulation subscales including
cognitive reappraisal (F= 9.27, P= 0.02), and suppression (F= 4.69, P= 0.036),
and treatment gains were maintained at follow-up. Conclusion: This method
can be used as a low-cost and effective treatment for the treatment of
emotional disorders and improving the psychological status of pregnant
women. 
Keywords
cognitive therapy
Depression
emotion regulation
Mindfulness
pregnant women
rumination
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