the effectiveness of mindfulness based cognitive therapy on loneliness and rumination of veteran’s spouses

Aims veterans’ families, especially their wives, are at high risk for mental and psychologicalinjuries that should be noticed to them. the aim of present study was to investigate theeffectiveness of mindfulness based cognitive therapy on loneliness and rumination ofveterans’ spouses.materials & methods in this experimental study with pretest-posttest design with controlgroup, 22 veterans’ spouses of shiraz city in 2018 were selected by purposive samplingmethod and randomly assigned into case and control groups (11 subjects in each group).participants in both groups completed the ditommaso’s loneliness questionnaire andthe nolen-hoeksema’s rumination questionnaire. the case group was then subjected tomindfulness-based cognitive therapy intervention during 8 sessions of 120-150 minutes.after group therapy on the case group, the post-test was performed on both groups. datawere analyzed by spss 20 software, using dependent and independent t-tests.findings in case group, significant changes in the sense of loneliness and rumination scaleswere observed in the post-test compared to the pre-test (p=0.0001). however, no significantchanges were observed in the control group. there was also a significant difference betweenthe case group and the control group in the sense of loneliness (p=0.01) and rumination(p=0.001).conclusion mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is an effective strategy to reducing sense ofloneliness, and rumination in veterans’ spouses.