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Acceptability and Feasibility of the Mindfulness Based Program for Infertility (PBMI)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

A. Galhardo ,
M. Cunha  and
J. Pinto-Gouveia
A. Galhardo*
Affiliation:
Miguel Torga institute, psychology, Coimbra, Portugal Faculty of psychology and educational sciences, university of Coimbra, CINEICC, Coimbra, Portugal
M. Cunha
Affiliation:
Miguel Torga institute, psychology, Coimbra, Portugal Faculty of psychology and educational sciences, university of Coimbra, CINEICC, Coimbra, Portugal
J. Pinto-Gouveia
Affiliation:
Faculty of psychology and educational sciences, university of Coimbra, CINEICC, Coimbra, Portugal
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Infertility is described as a low-control stressor that may induce psychopathological symptoms. The Mindfulness Based Program for Infertility (MBPI) is a structured intervention targeting infertile women that aims to cultivate mindfulness and acceptance skills. The MBPI efficacy was tested in 55 infertile women who completed the program and 37 women in a control group. By the end of the MBPI, women who attended the program revealed a significant decrease in depressive symptoms, internal and external shame, entrapment and defeat. Inversely, they showed significant improvement in mindfulness skills and self-efficacy to deal with infertility.

Aims

Determine the MBPI feasibility and acceptability.

Methods

The MBPI includes 10 weekly sessions, in a group format, with the duration of about 2 hours each. Participants’ recruitment was supported by the Portuguese Fertility Association. Fifty-five female participants with an infertility diagnosis who were pursuing medical treatment for infertility completed a questionnaire specifically developed to address the acceptability and satisfaction with the MBPI at the end of the 10th session.

Results

Participants scored as “very useful” most of the MBPI components (mindfulness practice, acceptance skills, values clarification, psychoeducation on stress and fertility-related lifestyle factors), except for the yoga component. The same pattern was found for the utility information, group support, small group exercises, contact with the therapist, progress notes and MBPI materials. The mean score for satisfaction with the therapist knowledge/competence was 9.55 (maximum: 10), the MBPI quality 8.91 and the MBPI global utility 8.95.

Conclusions

The MBPI showed to be feasible and well accepted by participants.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
EV933
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S519
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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