The Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety Tolerance and Dysfunctional Attitudes of Mothers of Children with Cancer

This research was conducted with the aim of effectiveness of cognitive therapy based on mindfulness on post-traumatic stress, distress tolerance and dysfunctional attitudes of mothers of children with cancer. The research method was semi-experimental with pre-test-post-test and control group. The statistical population of mothers with a child with cancer was in Dr. Sheikh Hospital in Mashhad in 2019, 30 of them were selected by purposeful sampling and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups (15 people in each group). Research tools were PTSD questionnaires (Withers et al., 1993), distress tolerance (Simmons and Gaher, 2005) and dysfunctional attitudes (Weizman and Beck, 1978). The experimental group received eight 90-minute sessions of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy intervention (Siegel et al., 2000). Research data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance test. The results indicated the effect of mindfulness on post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, distress tolerance and dysfunctional attitudes of mothers with children with cancer. According to the results of this research, cognitive therapy based on mindfulness can be used to improve the psychological problems of mothers of children with cancer.