The effect mindfulness-based counseling on anxiety in infertile women undergoing IVF

INTERVENTION: Intervention 1: Intervention group: The purpose of mindfulness is that a person who is facing the stress of motherhood can learn meditation based on mindfulness and this makes a person as a mother aware of her emotional reactions and deal with them more skillfully. Mothers receive eight sessions of virtual training on the virtual network in the form of 60 to 90‐minute group counseling based on mindfulness once a week. All sessions include a meditation exercise and a three‐minute breathing exercise. It begins and ends. The people of the experimental group should do these techniques 3 times a day for 10 minutes each time at home as homework. At the end of the eighth session, Vandenberg pregnancy anxiety questionnaire is completed again by both groups. The follow‐up period of this research is one month later, when Vandenberg pregnancy anxiety questionnaire is completed again by both groups. Intervention 2: Control group: Informed and voluntary consent is obtained from the participants. Then, the questionnaire of demographic and gynecological and midwifery characteristics as well as the Vandenberg Pregnancy Anxiety Questionnaire is completed by the participants through Pursline software before the intervention. After the intervention in the intervention group and at the end of the study and if the intervention is effective, educational The control group will be placed. CONDITION: Anxiety during pregnancy of women treated with assisted reproductive methods. PRIMARY OUTCOME: Pregnancy anxiety score of women treated with assisted reproductive methods before, immediately and one month after the intervention in two experimental and control groups. Timepoint: The effect of mindfulness counseling in a virtual way on the level of anxiety during pregnancy of women treated with assisted reproductive methods before, immediately and one month after the intervention in two experimental and control groups. Method of measurement: The researcher will select 64 women among pregnant women with a history of infertility and treated with assisted reproductive methods based on the entry and exit criteria using the random number table method using online software (www.Random.org/sequences). And patients are assigned to two intervention groups (mindfulness counseling) and control group. Again, each group is divided into two subgroups by a simple random method (4 subgroups of 16 people in two groups). Informed and voluntary consent is obtained from the participants. Then, the demographic and gynecology and obstetrics questionnaire related to the current pregnancy of the participants, which includes: questions about age, infertility period, gestational age, education level, occupation, spouse's education level, spouse's occupation, adequacy of family income for living expenses, place of residence satisfaction with life, the type of treatment methods and the frequency of treatment failure. Also, Vandenberg Pregnancy Anxiety Questionnaire is completed by the participants of both groups through Prasline software before starting the intervention.Vandenberg pregnancy anxiety questionnaire is completed again by both groups. The follow‐up period of this research is one month later, when the Vandenberg pregnancy anxiety questionnaire is completed again by both groups, and then the obtained data are entered and analyzed in the statistical software SPSS version 22. INCLUSION CRITERIA: 1‐ Pregnant women with a history of infertility and treated with assisted reproductive methods 2‐ Use at least one or more assisted reproductive methods (IVF‐IUI‐ICSI and...) 3‐ The ability to use online counseling and have an Android or iOS smart phone 4‐ Willingness to participate in the study 5‐ The ability to understand and speak Persian 6‐ Cooperation in doing homework 7‐ Having a minimum education at middle school level 8‐ Pregnancy age 20 weeks and later