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Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of mentalization-based supportive psychotherapy on improving insomnia symptoms and cognitive abilities in chronic cannabis users. The research method was a quasi-experimental design with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group and a three-month follow-up period. The statistical population included cannabis users referring to addiction treatment centers in Tehran in 1403. 30 people were selected based on the convenience sampling method and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups (15 people each). The intervention consisted of seven 90-minute group sessions (weekly) with a mentalization-based approach and according to the mentalization-based supportive psychotherapy protocol (Vogt et al., 2019). The data collection tools included the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Questionnaire and the Cognitive Abilities Questionnaire (Nejati, 2013), which were completed in three stages. The results were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance using SPSS version 26. The findings of this study showed that mindfulness-based psychotherapy can help improve sleep quality and enhance cognitive abilities in chronic cannabis users. This intervention can be recommended as an effective method in the treatment of cannabis addiction.
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