The Effect of Meta Cognitive Training (MCT) and Mindfulness - Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) on Couple Communication Patterns With The Mediating of Perceived Stress, Perceived Social Support And Emotion Regulation In Military personnel With Coronary Heart Diseases (CHD)

.This study was performed to investigate the efficacy of meta cognitive and mindfulness based cognitive therapy on couple communication patterns with the mediating of perceived stress, perceived social support and emotion regulation in military personnel with coronary heart diseases.
This research was an experimental pretest, posttest with two experimental groups and one control group) design of the CHD patients of military personnel, a sample of 45 subjects were chosen through random sampling and considering the available conditions and then were put into two experimental and control group( with random allocation in to three groups of 15 subjects). Data was analyzed through of multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) and stepwise regression analysis.
Findings of the study indicated that MCT and MBCT had an effect on the reduction of perceived stress and on the increase of perceived social support and improvement of emotion regulation and couple communication patterns among CHD patients.
The present study can be helpful in achieving an effective solution to the decrease of stress, increase of social support, improvement of emotion regulation and couple communication pattern and to the improvement of mental condition in general.