Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on depression, anxiety, and stress of women with the early loss of pregnancy

Determining the effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on depression, anxiety, and stress of women with the early loss of pregnancy

A clinical trial with two intervention and control groups, without blinding, randomized based on a random allocation table, the intervention was conducted during 8 sessions on 53 people in the intervention group.

The study was conducted in Zainabiyah Hospital, Shiraz. After identifying the women with the termination of the first trimester of pregnancy, if they met the criteria for participation in the study, the purpose of the research was explained to them if they wished, and they signed written informed consent. People were randomly placed in two intervention and control groups according to the allocation table. Both groups completed the pre-test, and then eight mindfulness sessions were held for the intervention group for eight weeks; after the intervention, both groups completed the post-test.

Entry conditions: bleeding, gestational age under 20 weeks Conditions of non-entry: unintended pregnancy, history of mental illness, use of neuropsychiatric drugs, recent great stress

For the intervention group, 8 sessions of 2 to 2.5 hours of mindfulness group counseling were conducted in 8 weeks. The control group received usual post-pregnancy care

Reduce stress, reduce anxiety, reduce depression

Using Random Allocation table Randomization has been done by the block method. We considered the intervention group as "A" and the control group as "B", and then 27 blocks of 4 combinations of "A, B" were randomly selected using R version 3.2.1 statistical software. A sequence of letters A, B was produced, and each person who referred to the Zeinabieh hospital was placed in the intervention or control group based on the sequence produced