A Randomized Controlled Study Of Mindful-based Group Therapy For 60 Inpatients With Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Objective: To test the effectiveness of Mindfulness-based group therapy for alleviating anxiety in patients with GAD,and provide evidence for therapy group.Methods: 60 inpatients meeting the criteria of the fourth edition of diagnostic and statistical diagnostic for GAD, randomly assigned to experimental group and control group, each for 30. The experimental group received group therapy combined with drug therapy, the control group were only treated with drugs, the study for 8 weeks. Respectively at the 8 weekend of the research object using the Hamilton Anxiety Scale(HAMA),Self-rating Anxiety Scale(SAS), The Five Factors of Mindfulness scale(FFMQ), global assessment scale(GAS) were measured. And the results of the two groups were compared and analyzed.Results: 1 Comparison of anxiety level before and after after 8 weeks intervention, the experimental group and the control group, the level of anxiety were significantly decreased, the reduction rate of experimental group was significantly higher than control group(P<0.05). 2 Before and after the intervention of mindfulness scale score comparison: after 8 weeks of treatment, the experimental group of mindfulness scale score increased more significantly than the control group(p<0.05). 3 There is negatively correlation between mindfulness and the level of anxiety(p<0.05).Conclusion: 1 The therapeutic efficacy of mindfulness-based group therapy combined with drugs in the intervention of GAD was significantly better than the simple drug intervention. 2 Mindfulness-based group therapy can significantly improve the GAD patients level of mindfulness. 3 Mindfulness certain inhibitory effect on anxiety.