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Study aim
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effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy on psychological symptoms, quality of life and infertile marital satisfaction under IVF treatment
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Design
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Clinical trial with control group, with parallel, non-blind, randomized, phase 3 groups on 44 patients, for randomization www. sealedenvelope.com/simple-randomiser/v1/lists was used
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Settings and conduct
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First, women who were diagnosed with infertility and met the criteria will be selected by purposive sampling from the center of Beheshti hospital in Kashan. At the first session of the researcher’s visit, all the information(methods, number of the sessions, duration, etc)randomization, the confidentiality of the information and the rights of withdrawal from the research will be provided. also, their consent of participation will be obtained.Individuals will then be randomly replaced in intervention and control groups of 22 people, and both groups will be identified in terms of all factors and confounding variables. Then treatment sessions will be held for people in the medical school.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Have a history of infertility for at least one year
Applying for IVF infertility treatment
No history of experience in mindfulness treatments
At least 25 years old
Have the ability to read and write
Marital Satisfaction score 40 and below in the Enrich Questionnaire Psychological symptoms score 44 and above in the Short Form Questionnaire Psychological symptoms
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Intervention groups
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The treatment groups of this study will be divided into 3 groups of 5 people and a group of 7 people and will be offered 8 sessions of stress reduction therapy based on mindfulness. Moreover,4 sessions of parenting styles will be held for control group
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Main outcome variables
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Psychological symptoms, quality of life and marital satisfaction of infertile women undergoing IVF treatment