EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MINDFULNESS-BASED COGNITIVE THERAPY ON QUALIFY OF LIFE OF WOMEN DURING REPRODUCTIVE AGE

Introduction: Quality of life is a set of emotional and cognitive reactions of individuals against one’s self physical, mental and social status. Any factor, including negative thoughts, affecting a person's sense of satisfaction reduces the quality of life. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is a behavioral intervention based on self-focus. In this way, people learn to expand acceptance instead of judging their experience and to create immediate awareness instead of automatic guidance, and to learn new ways of responding to situations.The present study aims at investigating the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on quality of life women in reproductive age.Methods: In the present review study, in order to find related articles SID, Science direct, Google Scholar and Pubmed databases with the keywords cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness, women of reproductive age and quality of life from ۲۰۱۵ to ۲۰۲۱ were searched and a total of ۲۰ articles, out of ۷۰ articles, were used.Results: The results of the present study revealed that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy increases the quality of life of women in reproductive age.Discussion and Conclusion: Mindfulness exercises affect the cognitive system by increasing people's awareness of immediate moment and paying attention to the here and now. thus, due to the effect of this type of education on the benefits of this method in terms of increasing the quality of life, its widespread use is recommended.

کلیدواژه ها:

Cognitive-behavioral therapy ، mindfulness ، quality of life ، women