The Effect of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy on General Health of Volunteer Addicts

Abstract

Mental health has always been an important topic in psychology. The aim of this research was to improve general health of volunteer addicts . The population of this study was self healing addicts. The subjects were volunteers who were refered to one of the centers of Mashhad Welfare Organization for outpatient addiction treatment. Based on their scores on GHQ (score 23 and above) 40 subjects were selected and then were randomly placed into two experimental and control groups (each group: 20 subjects). All the subjects completed the questionnaire again at the end of training for 10 sessions of 90 minutes each (pre-test) and again two months later (follow-up). The results of repeated analysis of variance showed that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy had a significant positive effect on general health, somatization, anxiety, social dysfunction and depression in volunteer self healing addicts (p > 0.01) The results of the post hoc test (LSD) showed that the effect of intervention was stable at the follow-up(p > 0.01). It seems that the use of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy was effective for self healing addicts because it significantly increased general health of addicts.

Keywords

• volunteer self-healing addicts
• general health