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The effectiveness of group counseling based mindfulness on marital stress in women of reproductive age: A clinical trial
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MAHSHID BOKAIE, FERDOWS MOHAMMAD ALIAN, BANAFSHE FARZINRAD, ALI DEHGHANI
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Marital stress is an integral part of common life and affects marital relationships. Marital stress, in addition to having a
negative impact on the health of individuals, causes significant disturbances in couples' marital and sexual relationships.
Several evidences suggest the importance of reducing stress in strengthening family relationships and improving its
members’ health.This study aims at investigating effectiveness of group counseling mindfulness-based cognitive therapyon
marital stressin women being in reproductive age.This is a controlled randomized study with pre-test, post-test
methodology and andone-month follow-up tests which was carried out on fifty women being in reproductive age in
Yazd. At first, all subjects completed Stockholm marital stress and demographic questionnaire. After randomization, the
intervention group (25 persons), spent 8 sessions of Mindfulness intervention for 90 minutes weekly. During this period,
the control group did not receive any intervention. After completing eight sessions and after a month, all participants in
the intervention and control group completed marital stress questionnaire again. Data analysis was performed using
SPSS 16 and p<0.001.The mean and standard deviation of marital stress scores in the intervention group at the
beginning of the study and the week of the 8 intervention and follow up phases were 66/50?14/84 ; 55/04?14/07 and
56.65?15.14, respectively. Also, these scores in the control group were 59.04?16.84 and 64.25?15.66 and 66.88?16.46
.The results show that group counseling mindfulness-based cognitive therapy has a meaningful effect on marital stress on
women of reproductive age.Mindfulness counseling significantly reduces marital stress in women and helps to increase
the mental health of women and the family.
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Marital stress, counseling, Mindfulness, Women in reproductive age
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http://eoi.citefactor.org/10.11209/ijpr.10.03
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| DOI:
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2018.10.03.028
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