A seven-year follow-up study of the Mindfulness Based Program for Infertility: Are there long term effects?

A seven-year follow-up study of the Mindfulness Based Program for Infertility: Are there long term effects? Clin Psychol Psychother. 2019 Feb 27;: Authors: Galhardo A, Cunha M, Pinto-Gouveia J Abstract The Mindfulness Based Program for Infertility (MBPI) was developed for people facing infertility and proved effective in cultivating mindfulness skills, improving infertility self-efficacy and decreasing depression, shame, entrapment and defeat feelings. Fifty-five women attended the MBPI sessions and completed self-report measures of depression, anxiety, mindfulness and experiential avoidance at post-MBPI (T1), six-months follow-up (T2) and seven-year follow-up (T3). There were significant direct time effects regarding experiential avoidance (F = 3.81; p < .033; Ƞp2 = .08), the mindfulness facets describing (F = 3.54; p = .037; Ƞp2 = .13), acting with awareness (F = 6.87; p = .002; Ƞp2 = .22), non-judging of inner experience (F = 10.66; p < .001; Ƞp2 = .31), and depressive symptoms (F = 4.85; p = .020; Ƞp2 = .10). There was an increase in the describing facet from T1 to T3 (p = .036). The act with awareness facet increased from T1 to T2 (p = .010) and from T1 to T3 (p = .007), as well as the non-judging of inner experience facet [T1 to T2 (p = .030) and T1 to T3 (p = .002)]. Experiential avoidance decreased from T1 to T3 (p = .022) and depressive symptoms from T1 to T2 (p = .019). Post-MBPI scores were maintained at T2 and ...
Source: Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Clin Psychol Psychother Source Type: research