The Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) In Reducing Perceived Stress in Pregnant Women in During Covid -۱۹ Pandemic

Stress is one of the mental disorders is one of the effective factors in the incidence of negative effects during pregnancy that can lead to adverse physical and mental consequences in pregnant women. Pregnant women with the prevalence of Covid ۱۹ disease due to the experience of quarantine and fear of infection the disease and losing the embryo have increased stress and mental health problems, which have added to the problems of pregnant women. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in redacting perceived stress in pregnant women during the Covid -۱۹ pandemic. This research was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test and follow up with control group. The sample population consisted of ۳۰ Pregnant Women who were selected by the available sampling method and randomly assigned to the experimental group and the control group. The present research tools are the perceived stress questionnaire (cohen, ۱۹۸۳) and acceptance and commitment therapy (Hayes, ۲۰۱۳). The experimental group received the acceptance and commitment therapy for ۸ sessions, each for ۹۰ minutes as online, and The control not received any intervention. Data analysis was performed by the Repeated measures analysis method. The finding indicates that acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) led to reducing perceived stress in pregnant women (P<_ ۰.۰۱). Considering the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), it can be mentioned that to improve the mental health of Pregnant Women and relieve their stress during the Covid ۱۹ pandemic, which leads to physical and mental damage to mother and child, such these Interventions seem necessary and important.