The impact of mindfulness training on stress reduction, quality sleeping, disturbing thoughts and anxiety sensitivity among patients with post-traumatic stress disorder from war

The aim of the present research was to investigate the effect of mindfulness training on quality sleeping, disturbing thoughts and anxiety sensitivity among patients with post-traumatic stress disorder from war in Isfahan, Iran.
This is a quasi-experimental research work with a pretest-posttest, follow-up and control group design. The population consisted of all the patients with post-traumatic stress disorder from war in Isfahan Province who had referred to health centers. A sample of 38 patients was selected on a voluntary basis from among those who had referred to Shahid Raja’i Psychiatry Hospital in Najaf-Abad, Iran. The sample was divided into two groups of 18 subjects. The experimental group received eight 90-minute sessions of mindfulness training, but the control group received no intervention. The required data were collected using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (1989), the Thought Control Questionnaire (Wells and Davies, 1994) and the Anxiety Sensitivity Questionnaire (Reiss and Peterson, 1985). The collected data were analyzed using multivariate covariance (MANCOVA).
The results revealed that mindfulness training significantly (p The obtained results support the effectiveness of mindfulness training on the quality of sleeping, disturbing thoughts and anxiety sensitivity among veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. Of course, the results of the present study need to be tested in longer follow-up periods.