The Effectiveness of Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on Suicidal Thoughts, Psychological Distress and Depression women with Hypothyroidism

The aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on suicidal thoughts, psychological distress, and depression in women with hypothyroidism. The research method was quasi-experimental and pretest-posttest with the control group. The statistical population included all women with hypothyroidism who were referred to counseling centers in Isfahan City in 1401. From among these women, 30 people were selected through targeted sampling and randomly replaced in two experimental and control groups and they responded to the Suicide Scale Ideation  (Beck, 1961), Psychological Distress Scale  (Kessler et al., 2002), and depression inventory short form items  (Beck, 1972). For the experimental group, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy was held in 8 sessions of two hours and once a week. Data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance. The findings showed that by controlling the pre-test effect, there is no significant difference between the post-test average of the two experimental and control groups in the variable of suicidal thoughts (P=0/113); But in the variables of psychological distress and depression, there is a significant difference (p<0/05). Based on this, it can be concluded that the mindfulness-based cognitive therapy intervention was effective in psychological distress and depression in women with hypothyroidism.