The effectiveness of Mindfulness Based on Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) on quality of life and optimism of adolescent pregnant women

Background: Pregnancy during adolescence causes a person to face many challenges, so that its contradiction with the adolescent's identity structure can have negative effects on her psychological dimension, especially on optimism and quality of life. Since the health of the pregnant mother is one of the health priorities of any country, the present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness (MBCT) on the quality of life and the optimism of adolescent pregnant mothers. Methods: The present study was performed as an interventional study with a pre-test-post-test design on 88 adolescent pregnant women referring to health centers in Ahvaz. Participants were divided into 44 groups of intervention and control. For the intervention group, 8 sessions of 90-minute mindfulness counseling were held weekly. The control group also received routine pregnancy care. Participants completed the LOT-R and SF-36 quality of life questionnaires before and after the intervention. Data were analyzed by SPSS26 software. Findings: There was a significant difference in the overall quality of life between the control and experimental groups before and after the intervention (p <0.001).&nbsp