The effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on severity of depression and anger in dysthymic patients

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The aim of the present study was to assess the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy combined with pharmacotherapy in compare to pharmacotherapy alone on depressive symptoms and anger in patients with dysthymia. Method of this study was a clinical trial that referred to two of the psychiatric clinics of shiraz university of medical sciences. Using convenient sampling .We selected 50 patients and assigned them into experimental and control groups. Having dysthymia or double depression diagnosis, being older than 18 y/o and having at least diploma were the inclusion criteria and psychosis, addiction and personality disorders were the exclusion criteria of the study. The control group received only medication while the experimental group received mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in addition to medication. The group therapy was held in 8 sessions of 2 to 2.5 hours for 8 weeks. The patients filled out Beck Depression Inventory and State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory. Finally we analyzed the data using ANCOVA statistical test. The findings showed significant decrease in severity of depression and anger among the experiemental group compared to the control group. So we can conclude that adding mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to pharmacotherapy compared to pharmacotherapy alone can cause significant improvement in depressive and aggressive symptoms in patients with dysthymia.

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Journal of Psychological Studies
Volume 12, Issue 3
December 2016
Pages 83-102

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