Sheydaei Hajieh, Ghasemzadeh Azizreza, Lashkari Amir, Kajani Parvaneh Ghorbani
MA Graduate in Clinical Psychology, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran.
Lecturer in Rehabilitation Science, Sun Face Medical Aesthetic Center, Dubai, UAE.
Electron Physician. 2017 Jul 25;9(7):4753-4758. doi: 10.19082/4753. eCollection 2017 Jul.
Postpartum depression is one of the prevalent disorders among new mothers. The present research aimed to examine the effectiveness of mindfulness training on reducing the symptoms of postpartum depression.
The present quasi-experimental research was conducted on 410 new mothers in Shahid Chamran Hospital, Tehran in 2014. Using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Structured Clinical Interview and Psychological Clinical Diagnosis, 67 mothers were selected and then randomly divided into experimental and control groups, each of which with 32 applicants. Afterwards, the experimental group received mindfulness training for 8 sessions, each lasting for two hours while the control group received no training. The data were analyzed through descriptive statistics and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) in SPSS, version 20.
Results showed that based on Beck Inventory, the scores for the experimental group in post-test were significant (p<0.001), compared to those for the control group. Also, it was revealed that pre- and posttest mean scores for postpartum depression in the control group were 25.81 and 25.12 respectively while the scores for the experimental group were 24.75 and 18.5 respectively. Since the posttest mean score in the experimental group was lower than that in the pretest, it can be said that the treatment, i.e., mindfulness training, was effective in reducing depression symptoms in mothers.
Findings proved that mindfulness training was effective in reducing the symptoms of postpartum depression in new mothers.
产后抑郁是新妈妈中普遍存在的疾病之一。本研究旨在探讨正念训练对减轻产后抑郁症状的有效性。
2014年，在德黑兰的沙希德·查姆兰医院对410名新妈妈进行了这项准实验研究。使用贝克抑郁量表（BDI）、结构化临床访谈和心理临床诊断，选取了67名母亲，然后将她们随机分为实验组和对照组，每组各有32名受试者。之后，实验组接受了为期8节、每节持续两小时的正念训练，而对照组未接受任何训练。数据通过SPSS 20版本中的描述性统计和协方差分析（ANCOVA）进行分析。
结果显示，根据贝克量表，实验组的后测得分与对照组相比具有显著性差异（p<0.001）。此外，还发现对照组产后抑郁的前测和后测平均得分分别为25.81和25.12，而实验组的得分分别为24.75和18.5。由于实验组的后测平均得分低于前测，因此可以说，即正念训练这种治疗方法，在减轻母亲的抑郁症状方面是有效的。
研究结果证明，正念训练在减轻新妈妈产后抑郁症状方面是有效的。
