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Abbas Abolghasemi; Yoosef Ebrahimi; Mohammad narimani; Fatemeh Asadi
Volume 3, Issue 12 , December 2015, , Pages 84-96
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Objectives: Asthma as a physical disease is influenced by psychological issues. This study determined the role of defense styles and resiliency in people with asthma can predict psychological vulnerability. Methods: This is a method of correlation. Study of 60 patients with asthma, adult (20 years) and ...
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Objectives: Asthma as a physical disease is influenced by psychological issues. This study determined the role of defense styles and resiliency in people with asthma can predict psychological vulnerability. Methods: This is a method of correlation. Study of 60 patients with asthma, adult (20 years) and 60 healthy subjects who were selected for sampling. Data collected for the defense of the scale, resiliency scale and psychological symptoms were short form. Research data with Pearson correlation tests, regression analysis and multivariate analysis of variance in multivariate analysis. Results: Pearson correlation test showed that the immature defense style (r=0/26), mature (r=-0/33) and resiliency (r=-0/37) with respect to significant psychological vulnerability are (PConclusion: These findings suggest that the styles of defenses and resiliency factors influencing the vulnerability of asthmatic patients are psychological. These results are important implications in the field of mental pathology, prevention and treatment to asthmatic patients.
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mehrdad akbari
Volume 4, Issue 15 , October 2015, , Pages 21-36
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Objective: Breast cancer can cause of many problems in physical, mental and social performance, including pain and can cause reduced quality of life. The aim of this study is the effect of coping skills training program on pain and quality of life in breast cancer patients residing in the city of Dezful. ...
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Objective: Breast cancer can cause of many problems in physical, mental and social performance, including pain and can cause reduced quality of life. The aim of this study is the effect of coping skills training program on pain and quality of life in breast cancer patients residing in the city of Dezful. Method: Method of this study is a quasi-experimental research design with pretest - posttest control group. During an informal invitation 34 patients were enrolled in the study were eligible. The patients were randomly divided into experiment and control groups (each group include 17 subjects). Experiment group were received 8 sessions 1.5 h weekly of coping skills program (Lazaruss, Folkman, 1984). Participants completed brief pain questionnaire (BPI) and quality of life questionnaire (European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)) before and after starting the program. Findings: The results of the descriptive analysis showed that experimental group have better in global quality of life and its dimensions, also experiment group reduced in both severity pain and interference in daily functioning than the control group. Conclusion: MANCOVA analysis demonstrates that coping training caused enhancement of quality of life and diminish the pain in experiment group.
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mohammad oraki; maryam Amir Abadi; shima heidari
Volume 4, Issue 16 , October 2015, , Pages 31-42
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Objective: The present research was fulfilled aiming on study of relation between life quality and anger indices with the mental health in Tehran ostomy patients. Method: In this research which was of correlation type, 169 ostomy patients member of Ostomy Association were selected that less than 6 months ...
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Objective: The present research was fulfilled aiming on study of relation between life quality and anger indices with the mental health in Tehran ostomy patients. Method: In this research which was of correlation type, 169 ostomy patients member of Ostomy Association were selected that less than 6 months of their surgery has been passed, they participated voluntarily and with (COH-QOL), trait- state Spilberger Anger Expression (STAXI-2) and general health (GHQ) Golberg and Hillier, the required information were collected and Spearman correlation and regression tests were used. Results: The results show, corporal and social dimensions have a significant correlation with all the mental health indices. Mental dimension with anxiety and insomnia, and depression, intellectual dimension with anxiety and insomnia, social insufficient interaction, and depression, life quality with physical signs and depression, introvert anger with physical signs, anxiety, insomnia and depression, extrovert anger with physical signs and anxiety and insomnia, general anger with physical signs have significant correlation. In prediction discussion the amount of fixed adjustment coefficient was calculated 58%. This means that two variables, anger index and life quality have predicted 58% variance of general health variable. Conclusion: With consideration to relation of anger and life quality with the general health of Ostomy Patients, it is better to improve the health of their body and mind by education of life skills and anger control to promote the life quality of these patients.
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arezoo hosseini
Volume 4, Issue 15 , October 2015, , Pages 37-48
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Objective: The goal of this study was to compare facets of cognitive emotion regulation strategies in patient with migraine headache, tension headache and normal individuals. Method: The design of this study was causal- comparative and statistical study population included all patients with migraine ...
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Objective: The goal of this study was to compare facets of cognitive emotion regulation strategies in patient with migraine headache, tension headache and normal individuals. Method: The design of this study was causal- comparative and statistical study population included all patients with migraine and tension headache referred to neurology clinic of Tehran Imam Hossein Hospital at May-December 2012. The sample of study included 30 patients with migraine headache, 30 patients with tension headache and 30 normal individuals. The instrument was Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ). The data was analyzed by MANOVA and HOC Tukey test. Findings: The results showed that people with migraine headaches had less positive strategies than normal ones. Also, women in both migraine headaches and normal migraine and normal men scored higher scores in using positive strategies. Conclusion: The training of emotional regulation by promoting the emotional excitement of patients with headache improves their mental health. Therefore, teaching strategies for cognitive emotion management is suggested to this group.
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M Nanegh; mehravar momeni javid; Simin Hosseinian
Volume 4, Issue 16 , October 2015, , Pages 43-58
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Objective: Nowadays family as an important social factor that effects chronic pain is being considered by researchers. Family is an effective environment in physical and mental health of people that provides the necessary conditions for development and achieve physical, mental and social balance. Methods: ...
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Objective: Nowadays family as an important social factor that effects chronic pain is being considered by researchers. Family is an effective environment in physical and mental health of people that provides the necessary conditions for development and achieve physical, mental and social balance. Methods: Family provides this conditions through a series of common actions which named family function. The aim of present study was to exam the contribution of dimensions of family function in fear of movement at patients with musculoskeletal chronic pain selected randomly. Family Assessment Device (FAD) and TAMPA questionnaire for assessing fear of movement is completed by participants. Results: It was found that there was a relation with family function dimensions and fear of movement variables and this relation was direct and among family function dimensions, problem solving, affective involvement, and affective responsiveness. Conclusion: Communication were the most related dimensions with fear of movement and problem solving is the most related one (9.1).
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Nazila Khatib Zanjani; M. Aghahheris
Volume 4, Issue 15 , October 2015, , Pages 75-86
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Objective: The Internet addiction among students in university is one of the modern addictions in modern societies. The purpose of this research was to compare of five-factor NEO personality traits among non-addiction and exposed to addiction students in Garmsar. Methods: This research was a comparative- ...
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Objective: The Internet addiction among students in university is one of the modern addictions in modern societies. The purpose of this research was to compare of five-factor NEO personality traits among non-addiction and exposed to addiction students in Garmsar. Methods: This research was a comparative- causality study. The statistical population included all male and female bachelor`s degree students in Garmsar university during 2013 that 286 subjects were randomly selected by multistage clustering. Data was collected by two questionnaires including Yung`s Internet addiction test and the short form of five-factor Revised NEO Personality Inventory. Findings: Data analysis revealed a significant difference in non-addiction and exposed to addiction students between the personality traits of extroversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness (p<0.05). So the participants of exposed to addiction groups have less degree than non-addiction students. Conclusions: Three personality traits of extroversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness are less in exposed addiction students than non-addiction groups. So, exposed to addiction students because of introversion have less agreeableness with others and reported less conscientiousness, so they spent much time on internet.
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abbas bayat asghari; banafsheh gharaee; hassan heydari; javad javaheri; sahar mousanejad; ahmad aramon
Volume 4, Issue 16 , October 2015, , Pages 59-68
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Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the characteristics and personality dimensions extraversion vs. introversion, neuroticism versus emotional stability characteristics with adherence in patients with type 2 diabetes. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 100 type II diabetes' patients ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the characteristics and personality dimensions extraversion vs. introversion, neuroticism versus emotional stability characteristics with adherence in patients with type 2 diabetes. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 100 type II diabetes' patients were recruitment by convenient sampling method. Patients checked-out revised questionnaire of Eysenck Personality (short form) and questionnaire to treatment adherence. The data were analyzed by Spearman correlation test and a linear regression model and for spss software was used for data analysis. Results: there was a significant inverse correlation between the personality neuroticism traits and adherence and a significant positive correlation between personality traits - emotional stability and consistency of treatment of modes. There was not correlation between introversion and extroversion. Conclusion: The results of this study emphasize the influence of personality traits, emotional stability, and neuroticism on the adherence and treatments follow-up among diabetic patients.
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bahman bahmani; maedeh naghiyaee; ali ghanbari motlagh; aida dehkhoda; fahime alimohamadi; Bijhan Khorasani
Volume 4, Issue 14 , May 2015, , Pages 5-17
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Objective: Marital satisfaction is one of important consequences of a good couple relationships and is a main indicator for evaluation of its functionality. This study was conducted to evaluate effect of diagnosis and medical treatments of breast cancer on marital satisfaction of women, by comparing ...
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Objective: Marital satisfaction is one of important consequences of a good couple relationships and is a main indicator for evaluation of its functionality. This study was conducted to evaluate effect of diagnosis and medical treatments of breast cancer on marital satisfaction of women, by comparing to the general population. Method: In this descriptive-comparative study, 50 women with breast cancer who had referred to the department of Radiotherapy in Imam Hussein Hospital for complementary therapies and 50 women of general population were selected based on using purposive sampling, and then answered to the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (Spaneir 1976). The data were processed through Sciences Statistical Package for the Social (SPSS 19) to calculate independent T test. Findings: Findings indicate significant deference (sig=0/001) between marital satisfaction of two groups and lower marital satisfaction of breast cancer. Conclusion: According to the finding of this study and with regarding of finding reported by other related studies, it seems that considering marital satisfaction during early stages of diagnosis and medical treatments is a mental health necessity.
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farhad hoseini; mojtaba habibi; farhad radfar
Volume 4, Issue 14 , May 2015, , Pages 45-61
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Introduction: One of the main concerns of health–social policymakers in nowadays societies is the increasing prevalence of addictive behaviors, particularly cigarette smoking and smoking in younger age groups. This study aimed to compare the attachment style, perceived loneliness and mental health ...
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Introduction: One of the main concerns of health–social policymakers in nowadays societies is the increasing prevalence of addictive behaviors, particularly cigarette smoking and smoking in younger age groups. This study aimed to compare the attachment style, perceived loneliness and mental health between smokers and non-smokers of dormitory students. Methodology: using the ex-post facto design for studying all Shahid Beheshti University students in the 91-92 school years. The sample consisted of 50 smokers and 50 nonsmokers, which selected by convenient sampling. And the questionnaires of attachment style (scales of anxiety, dependency and proximity), perceived loneliness (scales of loneliness due to family, loneliness due to Friends and Signs of emotional loneliness) and mental health answered. Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used for data analysis. Results: findings of study showed, there are significant difference between smokers and non-smokers students in attachment style, perceived loneliness and mental health scales and. People who have smoked had more insecure attachment style, loneliness feeling and less mental health. Conclusion: The results of the present study indicate that smoking is influenced by personal factors, and attachment style, loneliness feeling and mental health are associated with smoking.
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azar validipak; Shadie Khaledi; Kiomars moeini manesh
Volume 4, Issue 14 , May 2015, , Pages 62-78
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Introduction: the purpose of this research is to determine check the scale of mindfulness training based on cognitive therapy (MBCT) on enhancing optimism in pregnant women with diabetes. Materials And Method: research way is experimental and research sample contains 30 peregnant women with diabetes ...
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Introduction: the purpose of this research is to determine check the scale of mindfulness training based on cognitive therapy (MBCT) on enhancing optimism in pregnant women with diabetes. Materials And Method: research way is experimental and research sample contains 30 peregnant women with diabetes who live in sanandaj and who have been choosed by random and are set in 2 groups (experimental and control). in the experimental group, they presented mindfulness training (MBCT) but they presented no training in control group. Both groups were evaluated by pre -test and after training by past -test. in this research data were gathered by oxford optimism questionnaire. For data analysis co -variance was used.Results: The findings of this study, has shows significant differences between control and experimental groups.the Mindfulness training based on cognitive therapy (MBCT) has a significant effect on increased optimism.Conclusion: the Mindfulness training based on cognitive therapy (MBCT) can of the interventions program in a population of pregnant diabetes women and their optimism increase.
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Mina Mojtabaei; Hayde Saberi; azizeh alizadeh
Volume 4, Issue 13 , February 2015, , Pages 21-40
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Objective: The aim of the present study is to investigate the role of Sexual Self-Schema and body image on Sexual function of married female nurses. Method: Statistical population of the present study consist of all married female nurses of Tehran government hospitals. From which 200 individuals were ...
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Objective: The aim of the present study is to investigate the role of Sexual Self-Schema and body image on Sexual function of married female nurses. Method: Statistical population of the present study consist of all married female nurses of Tehran government hospitals. From which 200 individuals were selected by stratified sampling method. They Completed Sexual Self-Schema scale, Fisher Body image Questionnaire and Female Sexual Function Index.190 Questionnaire were fully answered and were considered. Results: The results of the regression analyses revealed that there were significant relationship between Passionate - Romantic and Embarrassed –Conservative subscales and sexual function. Body satisfaction significantly correlated with desirable sexual function. Conclusion: findings showed that Sexual Self-Schema and Body image can predict sexual function.
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Mohsen Kachuei; Ali Fathi ashtiani; Abasali Allahyari
Volume 4, Issue 13 , February 2015, , Pages 63-72
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Objective: The present study examined role of coping styles and personality traits in eating- disordered behaviors. Method: 331 students from Tehran university, were randomly selected using cluster sampling method. All participants filled out eating attitudes test (EAT-26), Ways of coping Questionnaire ...
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Objective: The present study examined role of coping styles and personality traits in eating- disordered behaviors. Method: 331 students from Tehran university, were randomly selected using cluster sampling method. All participants filled out eating attitudes test (EAT-26), Ways of coping Questionnaire (WOCQ) and Five Factor Personality Inventory (NEO-FFI). Length, weight and body mass index were measured. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient, and multivariate regression. Results: The results revealed significant correlations between eating- disordered behaviors and Emotion-oriented coping, Task-orientated coping, agreeableness, neuroticism and Conscientiousness Personality traits. Multivariate regression data revealed that Emotion-oriented coping, Conscientiousness and agreeableness Personality traits might explain 17.5% of eating- disordered behaviors variance. Conclusion: Findings suggested that individuals develop eating-disordered behaviors as a means of encounter with problems, resulting on interaction between coping styles and personality traits
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masoomeh abdolkhaleghi; omid shokri; maryam safaei; Raheme Salehi
Volume 4, Issue 13 , February 2015, , Pages 113-126
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Objective: The main purpose of the present study was to investigate psychometric properties of the Brief Religious Coping Scale (BRCS, Pargament, Koenig & Perez, 2000) among male and female cancer patients. 155 cancer patients (119 female, 36 male) completed the Brief Religious Coping Scale. Method: ...
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Objective: The main purpose of the present study was to investigate psychometric properties of the Brief Religious Coping Scale (BRCS, Pargament, Koenig & Perez, 2000) among male and female cancer patients. 155 cancer patients (119 female, 36 male) completed the Brief Religious Coping Scale. Method: The exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis methods and internal consistency coefficients were used to compute the BRCS's factorial validity and reliability, respectively. Results: The results of principal component analysis (PC) with varimax rotation replicated 2-factor structure of positive and negative religious coping strategies for cancer patients. Goodness-of-fit indices of confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the 2 extracted factors. Internal consistency coefficients for positive and negative religious coping strategies were 0/85 and 0/80, respectively. Conclusion: In sum, BRCS appears to be a good instrument that does what it was intended to do: assess religious methods of coping in an efficient, psychometrically sound, and theoretically meaningful manner
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Mohammad Ali Besharat; Masomeh Darvishi Lord; Ali Zahed Mehr; Masoud Gholamali Lavasani
Volume 2, Issue 5 , June 2013, , Pages 5-22
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Aim: The present study aimed to examine the mediating role of anger on the relationship between negative affect and social inhibition with severity of coronary artery stenosis in a sample of patients with coronary artery disease. Method: Method of the present exploratory study was correlational. A total ...
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Aim: The present study aimed to examine the mediating role of anger on the relationship between negative affect and social inhibition with severity of coronary artery stenosis in a sample of patients with coronary artery disease. Method: Method of the present exploratory study was correlational. A total of 200 patients with coronary artery disease (112 men, 88 women) participated in this study. The patients were asked to complete the Multidimensional Anger Inventory (MAI) and Type D Personality Scale (DS14). Results: The results demonstrated that anger, negative affect, and social inhibition had a meaningful association with severity of coronary artery stenosis (p < .01). The results of path analysis also showed that the relationship between negative affect and social inhibition with severity of coronary artery stenosis is mediated by anger. Conclusion: It can be concluded that severity of coronary artery stenosis might be predicted by anger, negative affect, and social inhibition.
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M Agahheris; E Mousavi; M Janbozorgi; Z barghi Irani
Volume 2, Issue 5 , June 2013, , Pages 34-47
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Introduction:The reliability and validity of exercise self- efficacy scale (ESS) and its relationship to weight efficacy lifestyle and body mass index among overweight and obese individuals was investigated in this study.Method: Using convenient sampling method, 343 participants with BMI≥25 eligible ...
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Introduction:The reliability and validity of exercise self- efficacy scale (ESS) and its relationship to weight efficacy lifestyle and body mass index among overweight and obese individuals was investigated in this study.Method: Using convenient sampling method, 343 participants with BMI≥25 eligible toexclude- include criteria were selected among students in Payam Noor university of Semnan province. All of them completed the items of exercise self- efficacy, and weight efficacy lifestyle questionnaires, and their anthropometric indices were measured, too. Results: Applying 16th version of SPSS internal revealed that that internal coefficient with alpha's Cronbach for exercise self- efficacy was 0.93. Calculating correlation coefficients to WEL, and body mass index were significant (p
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Ali Ahmadi Azghandi
Volume 2, Issue 5 , June 2013, , Pages 48-62
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Aim: The Style of life in substance abusers and normal individuals in Tehran City was Studied.Method: For this purpose 404 subjects(191 substance abuser,213normal individuals) were selected by stratified random sampling method and answered to life style inventory.Results: The Results indicatede that ...
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Aim: The Style of life in substance abusers and normal individuals in Tehran City was Studied.Method: For this purpose 404 subjects(191 substance abuser,213normal individuals) were selected by stratified random sampling method and answered to life style inventory.Results: The Results indicatede that difference between substance abusers and normal individuals in Belonging-social interest life style, Wanting recognition life style and Being cautious life style was significant but in taking charge and Going along life styles was not significant. The Results of Logistic regression analysis indicatede that Belonging-social interet life style explanate 19 percentage of variance significantly and other cofficients is not significan.Conclution:This findings in coordination with Adlerian view about development of neuroses corroborate the difference between substance abusers and normal individuals in life of styles and press on preventive importance of primary interventions in these areas for prevention of substance abuse.a a a a Key words: Style of life, substance abuse, neurosis.
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mojtaba habibi; S Imani; S Pashaei; M Zahiri Sorori; J Mirzaee; M Zare
Volume 2, Issue 5 , June 2013, , Pages 63-81
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Objective: The effectiveness of mindfulness on quality of life, especially improvement in the psychological and physical health of opium abusers was evaluated. Method: The sixty opium abuser cases were randomly selected from the Andishe Rahaee clinic and assigned into control and experimental groups ...
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Objective: The effectiveness of mindfulness on quality of life, especially improvement in the psychological and physical health of opium abusers was evaluated. Method: The sixty opium abuser cases were randomly selected from the Andishe Rahaee clinic and assigned into control and experimental groups with pretest and posttest design method. The experimental group under take 8 sessions Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, while the control group received no intervention. The assessment of the Quality of Life Scale (sf-36) was done in pre-test and post-test on the physical functioning, physical role, bodily pain, general health, vitality, social functioning, role emotional and emotional well-being subscales and data were analyzed by MANCOVA. Results: The MANCOVA showed that experimental and control group was paired in pretest point, and Mindfulness training increased the psychological and physical health scores significantly in the experimental group. Conclusion: Mindfulness-Based Treatment Program could be as selective intervention program in addicts’ population to improving quality of life.
