Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences

Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences

Effectiveness Of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy On The Health Anxiety And The Signs Of Post-Traumatic Stress In The Patients Recovered From Covid-19 With The History Of Hospitalization

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Mahdi Boloukian 1
Hamidreza Vatan Khah 2
1 Ma of General Psychology, Islamic Azad University, West Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, West Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.
10.22038/mjms.2021.19461
Abstract
Introduction and purpose: Covid-19 can seriously damage the patients’ psychological, cognitive and emotional processes besides physiologic damages. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on the health anxiety and the signs of post-traumatic stress in the patients recovered from Covid-19 with the history of hospitalization.
 Method: It was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest and control group design. The statistical population of the study included the patients recovered from Covid-19 with the history of hospitalization in the city of Tehran in the summer of 2020. 28 Covid-19-recovered patients with the history of hospitalization were selected through snowball sampling method and were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 14 patients). The experimental group received eight seventy-five sessions of mindful-based cognitive therapy during a month. The applied questionnaire included health anxiety and post-traumatic stress signs. The data from the study were analyzed through ANCOVA method by SPSS statistical software 23.
Findings: The results showed that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy has had significant effect on the health anxiety and the signs of post-traumatic stress in the patients recovered from Covid-19 with the history of hospitalization (p<0.001) and led to the decrease of health anxiety and the signs of post-traumatic stress in them.
Conclusion: According to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy can be used as an efficient therapy to decrease health anxiety and post-traumatic stress signs in the patients recovered from Covid-19 with the history of hospitalization through employing techniques such as cognitive process modification, mindful attention and mindful behaviors.
Keywords
Health anxiety
post-traumatic stress signs
mindfulness-based cognitive-therapy
Covid-19
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Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences
Volume 64, Issue 4
November and December 2021
Pages 3719-3730