1- Department of Psychology, Bojnourd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd, Iran
2- Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. , AsgharipourN@mums.ac.ir
3- Khayyam University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
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Objectives: Depression is one of the most common mental disorders and according to the predictions of the World Health Organization, it will be the most important debilitating disease in the whole world by 2030, and its treatment is associated with many challenges. Nowadays, it is very important to pay attention to new treatments in order to reduce the problems of people suffering from depression. Cognitive therapy based on mindfulness and unified protocol transdiagnostic Treatment is one of the new treatments proposed for depression. The purpose of this study is to compare the effect both of this Therapies on emotional regulation and rumination. Thought is one of the effective components in depression disorder.
Methods: The statistical population of this clinical trial consists of all people who referred to the Mashhad Jahad Counseling Center in the summer of 1400 and were diagnosed with depression through a clinical interview. 30 people(18-50 years) were selected by available sampling method and randomly divided in to two experimental groups (15 people in MBCT and 15 people in UP Treatment). Research tools include Beck depression questionnaires(BDI II), ruminative response style (RRS), emotional regulation (ERQ) and structured clinical interview for mental disorders SCID-5CV were completed for all participants at the beginning and end of the study and the present data were analyzed using spss software version 22 in descriptive statistics, Kolmogorov/Smirnov test and analysis of covariance.
Results: The results of this research showed that both experimental groups significantly improved the average scores of emotional regulation (p<0.001) after controlling for pre-test scores. There was a significant difference in rumination scores between unified transdiagnostic and mindfulness therapies after adjusting for pre-test scores (p=0.009, F=7.87).
Conclusion: Based on the findings of the present study, both therapeutic interventions improved emotional regulation in depressed people to the same extent. Cognitive therapy based on mindfulness had a better effect on rumination in depressed people than unified protocol transdiagnostic Treatment.
Type of Study:
Original Research |
Subject:
Psychiatry and Psychology Received: 2023/12/3 | Accepted: 2024/07/31 | Published: 2024/07/31