The effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction program on metacognitive awareness, rumination, and self-compassion in menopausal women
Mona Hassannejad, Mehrnaz Azad Yekta, Sajad Naderi Sevini, Abbas Khani
preprint DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1935904/v1 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Quasi-experimental study |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 70 |
| Population | Postmenopausal women referred to the Valiasr Hospital Health Center in Iran in fall 2021 |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Key findings | The authors report that mindfulness-based stress reduction increased metacognitive awareness and self-compassion and decreased rumination in postmenopausal women, based on multivariate analysis of covariance comparing the experimental and control groups. |
Abstract
Abstract: Women spend more than a third of their lives during menopause and estrogen deficiency. In addition, these neuroendocrine changes affect a woman's physical and mental health by reducing her fertility and menstrual function. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction on metacognitive awareness, rumination, and self-compassion in postmenopausal women. This research was applied in terms of purpose and semi-experimental in terms of implementation method. The statistical population of this study included all postmenopausal women referred to the Valiasr Hospital Health Center in Iran in the fall of 2021; 70 women were selected by convenience sampling and randomly assigned to experimental (35) and also control (35) groups to investigation. According to the findings of paper, data analysis results using multivariate analysis of covariance (MANOVA) showed that this research effectively helps to increase metacognitive awareness and also increase self-compassion, and also it can decrease rumination in postmenopausal women.
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 |
Citations in the library
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