Efficacy of mindfulness-based cognitive program on quality of life and happiness of nurses in psychiatric wards
Narges Shakeri, Parvaneh Mohammadkhani, Fatemeh Mohammadnejad
مطالعات روانشناختی January 2, 2019 DOI: 10.22051/psy.2017.14067.1348 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Quasi-experimental with control group Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 40 |
| Population | Nurses at a psychiatric hospital (Martyr Zare) |
| Intervention | Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy |
| Measures | World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire, Oxford Happiness Questionnaire |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Keywords | Quality of life Happiness Nurses Mental patients |
| Key findings | Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy significantly improved quality of life and happiness among psychiatric hospital nurses compared to a control group, based on ANCOVA and MANCOVA analyses. |
Abstract
AbstractThe overall objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on quality of life and happiness psychiatric hospital caregivers is the martyr of Zare. This study is applied and the method, the preceding studies PyshZmvn and PsZmvn quasi-experimental design with a control group. The population of it, all nurses psychiatric hospital patients martyr Zare to form the number 85 because of the quasi-experimental study, 40 patients (20 cases and 20 controls) using the sampling method available as were chosen. The World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire to collect data in four dimensions and Oxford happiness questionnaire with 26 questions and 29 questions was used. Tools face and content validity was confirmed by experts and its reliability using Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the quality of life questionnaire 734/0 and 84/0 respectively happiness questionnaire. To analyze the data Zmvn Hay univariate analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and multivariate (MANCOVA) is used. Results showed that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on quality of life and happiness psychiatric hospital caregivers martyr Zare has a significant impact
Comparable studies
Other experimental studies on meditation, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| The benefits of being present: Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being. Cancer patients (clinical intervention study) | 2003 | Mixed methods: scale development, correlational, quasi-experimental, laboratory, experience-sampling, and clinical intervention study | |
| Loving-kindness meditation increases social connectedness. | 2008 | Controlled laboratory experiment | |
| Mindfulness and mind-wandering: Finding convergence through opposing constructs. | 2012 | Two studies: correlational study and experimental study | |
| Mental Training Enhances Attentional Stability: Neural and Behavioral Evidence | 2009 | Experimental study | |
| Mindfulness meditation and substance use in an incarcerated population. Incarcerated population | 2006 | Quasi-experimental with treatment-as-usual control condition |