Comparison of the Effectiveness of Educational Intervention based on Hope Therapy Approach and Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy Approach on Psychological Well-being of Women with Multiple Sclerosis

The purpose of this research was to compare the effectiveness of educational intervention based on the hope therapy approach and cognitive therapy approach based on mindfulness on the psychological well-being of women suffering from MS disease. The method of the current research was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test control group design with a three-month follow-up period. The statistical population of the study consisted of all women with MS disease and members of the MS Association of Iran in 2018, from which 36 people were selected by non-random sampling method. All of them completed the psychological well-being questionnaire (PWB-SF) of Ryff (1989) before the interventions. After that, the experimental groups received therapeutic interventions. After completing the interventions, all three groups received the post-test. Finally, after three months, the follow-up test was performed again. The data were analyzed using the mixed analysis of variance method. The results showed that there is a significant difference in the psychological well-being variable between the three groups in the post-test and follow-up phase (P<0.05). The intervention groups of hope therapy and cognitive therapy based on mindfulness had a significant difference with the control group in the psychological well-being variable. This was even though no significant difference was observed between the two groups of hope therapy and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (P<0.05). Based on this, it can be said that the use of hope therapy and cognitive therapy methods based on mindfulness can be effective in improving the psychological well-being of women with MS disease.