Effect of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on quality of life and self-efficacy in dialysis patients

Introduction: amongst other problems, dialysis patients also present mental and psychologicalproblems.objectives: in this study, we investigated the effect of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy(mbct) on quality of life and self-efficacy in hemodialysis patients.patients and methods: in a descriptive study, 50 hemodialysis patients undergoing dialysis inhajar hospital were randomly selected and divided into two groups of experimental and control.the experimental group attended 2 to 2.5 hours treatment sessions according to the mbctprogram. before the intervention and two months after, the outcomes of the study, regarded as,quality of life and self-efficacy were evaluated using the 36-item short form health survey (sf-36)and sherer et al’s general self-efficacy scale, respectively. data were analyzed using descriptivestatistics, independent t test, paired t test, and wilcoxon test in the stata software.results: the results indicated that 2 months after intervention, a decrease of 2.05 points in meanscore for quality of life in the control group and an increase of 10.30 points in the intervention groupat p < 0.01 significance level was detected. furthermore, mean self-efficacy score increased by 0.95in control group and 5.2 points in the intervention group at p < 0.01 significance level. while, themean scores for quality of life and self-efficacy increased after intervention, the difference in themean scores between the two groups was not statistically significant after intervention (p > 0.05).conclusion: the results of this study showed that the mbct program resulted in an increase in themean scores for quality of life and self-efficacy in hemodialysis patients.