Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Reducing Depression and Increasing Quality of Life of Soldiers

this study aims to investigate the effect of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on increasing life quality and decreasing depression. In this study, a quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test were used. To this end, 30 subjects were randomly selected from among the soldiers of a police unit and were divided in two groups: experimental and control groups. The experimental group was trained in eight two-hour sessions, in group through MBCT method. The control group received no therapy training. Subjects in both groups completed the WHO-QOL-BREF and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) in two occasions (before treatment and after treatment). In data analysis, Kolmogorov - Smirnov two-sample test was used and Shapiro-Wilk test for variables, Levine test for testing homogeneity of variances and MANCOVA were used to investigate the research hypothesis. Results show that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy enhances the quality of life and reduces depression in soldiers. It seems that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy exercises increases awareness of people from the present time can affect cognitive system and information processing through techniques such as focusing on breath and body and directing awareness to here and now