A 7-year follow-up study of the Mindfulness-Based Program for Infertility: Are there long-term effects?

Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
Ana GalhardoJosé Pinto-Gouveia

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), 6-month follow-up (T2), and 7-year follow-up (T3). There were significant direct time effects regarding experiential avoidance (F = 3.81; p < 0.033; ηp2  = 0.08), the mindfulness facets describing (F = 3.54; p = 0.037; ηp2  = 0.13), acting with awareness (F = 6.87; p = 0.002; ηp2  = 0.22), nonjudging of inner experience (F = 10.66; p < 0.001; ηp2  = 0.31), and depressive symptoms (F = 4.85; p = 0.020; ηp2  = 0.10). There was an increase in the describing facet from T1 to T3 (p = 0.036). The act with awareness facet increased from T1 to T2 (p = 0.010) and from T1 to T3 (p = 0.007), as well as the nonjudging of inner experience facet (T1 to T2 [p = 0.030] and T1 to T3 [p = 0.002]). Experiential avoidance decreased from T1 to T3 (p = 0.022) and depressive symptoms from T1 to T2 (p = 0.019). Post-MBPI scores were maintai...Continue Reading

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