TY - JOUR T1 - investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness training on perceived stress, quality of life and metacognitive beliefs in multiple sclerosis patients TT - اثربخشی آموزش ذهن آگاهی بر استرس ادراک‌شده، کیفیت زندگی و باورهای فراشناختی بیماران مبتلا به مولتیپل اسکلروسیس (ام اس) JF - jnip JO - jnip VL - 9 IS - 13 UR - http://jnip.ir/article-1-527-en.html Y1 - 2021 SP - 1 EP - 15 KW - Mindfulness KW - Perceived Stress KW - Quality of Life KW - Metacognitive Beliefs KW - Multiple sclerosis. N2 - The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness training on perceived stress, quality of life and metacognitive beliefs in multiple sclerosis patients. The research method was semi-experimental study with pre-test, post-test with the control group and the statistical population included all patients with MS referring to MS Society in Tehran in 1398. The sample size of this study was 40 patients with ms between 20 and 50 years, which were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly assigned to two groups (n=20). And all subjects responded to the Cohen et al. (1983), Weir & Sherbour's (1992), and Wells & Hutton's (2004) metacognitive beliefs questionnaires. The experimental group underwent for 8 sessions mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in 2-hours sessions by using Segal and etal. But the control group did not receive any training. The results from using post tests in each group showed that there were significant differences between the components of perceived stress including negative perception of stress and positive perception of stress after adjusting for pretest effects in the experimental and control groups. There were also differences between the components of quality of life including physical function, social function, emotional role playing, mental health, vitality, and general health after adjusting for pretest effects in the experimental and control groups, which was statistically significant. Meta-cognitive beliefs including positive worry beliefs; negative controllability beliefs; cognitive uncertainty; need to control thoughts and cognitive self-awareness after adjusting for pre-test effects. From moderating pre-test effects Mindfulness training on perceived stress, quality of life and beliefs of multiple sclerosis patients and their components had an impact. The collected data has been by multivariate analysis of covariance. M3 ER -