The Effectiveness of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) on Depression, Rumination and Perceived Stress in Women with Type 2 Diabetes

Introduction: The present study has been performed for investigating the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) on depression, rumination and perceived stress in women with type 2 diabetes. Methods: The research design was a semi-experimental study with unit-variable pre-test and post-test with control group. The sample consisted of 30 diabetic women the members of Public Sport Association of North Khorasan in 2017 were assigned to experimental (mindfulness-based cognitive therapy) and control group, randomly. The patients of experimental group to attended mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in the 8 sessions 120 minutes per week. Participants in the study responded to tools including Beck Depression Inventory-2nd edition, Ruminative Responses Scale and Perceived Stress Scale in pretest and posttest. Results: The results of Single-variable covariance analysis demonstrated that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy significantly decreased depression (P= 0.0007), rumination (P= 0.085) and perceived stress (P= 0.0001) in experimental group in post-test and these changes were significant in the experimental group compared to the control group. Conclusions: Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy decreased depression, ruminative and perceived stress in diabetic women.