efficacy of mindfulness-based stress reduction (mbsr) on the psychological symptoms of multiple sclerosis patients

aim and background: multiple sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system that causes major psychological challenges for patients all over the world. in this case, psychological interventions can be useful. this study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction (mbsr) on depression, fatigue, and anxiety in multiple sclerosis patients.  method and materials: a clinical trial design with control group was used in this study. 20 female patients were selected through accessible sampling method from the ms society of kerman and were randomly assigned to two groups (experimental and control). all participants completed the beck depression inventory (bdi), beck anxiety inventory (bai), and fatigue severity scale (fss) before and after the intervention, and again after the follow-up period. the intervention was eight sessions of mbsr. data was analyzed using analysis of variance (anova) on the gain score.   findings: the findings of this study indicated that the two groups were significantly different regarding depression and anxiety (p < 0.01) both immediately after the treatment and during the follow-up evaluation. however, no significant difference was found between the two groups regarding fatigue.                       conclusions: the results of the current study demonstrated the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction (mbsr) on the improvement of depression and anxiety in female ms patients.