The effectiveness of Self- Compassion Focused Training (CFT) on mothers on sleep quality of theirs preschool children with symptoms of learning disability

The main objective of this research was to examinethe effectiveness of mothers’ compassion focused training on sleep quality of their pre-school children withsymptoms of learning disability.
We employed a semi-experimental method by a pretest, posttest, and follow-up design with experimental and control groups. The population consisted of all mothers of Pre-school children with symptoms of learning disability and sleep disorders in Mobarakeh Town during academic year of 2016-2017. By using convenience sampling method, 30 mothers of children with symptoms of learning disability and sleep disorders were selected and randomly were divided in to two experimental groups and one control group (n=15). The tools of this study were the contents of symptoms of learning disabilities in Pre-school children (Steele) and children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire. The experimental group received 8 sessions of intervention. The Participants of both group responded to questionnaires, before training, at the end of training, 1 month after the end of training.
The results of Multivariate Analysis of Covariance showed that the CFT is effective on improving sleep quality reduction of in Pre-school children with symptoms of learning disability. In addition, this training had significant effects on the improvement of components of sleep quality (sleep resistance, sleep duration, sleep disordered breathing, sleep onset delay, sleep anxiety) (P
It was concluded that Mothers’Self- Compassion focused training could be used as a new and effective method for improving sleep quality in pre-school children with symptoms of learning disabilities.