Purpose: Pregnancy is one of the most sensitive periods of
human life. A long wait to give birth and constant concern for
the health of the baby accompany the mother during all
pregnancy periods. The aim of this study was to compare the
effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy and metacognitive therapy on psychological well-being, Blood
Pressure and Blood Sugar in pregnant women.
Materials and Methods: The current study was a quasiexperimental study with a pre-test-post-test-follow-up plan
with a control group. The statistical population of the present
study consisted of all pregnant women in the second 3 months
of pregnancy who referred to the hospitals and pregnancy
clinics of Tehran in 2020-2021. 45 people were selected in a
purposeful way and randomly assigned to two experimental
groups and one control group. The tools of this research were
Ryff's psychological well-being questionnaires (1989) and a
special armband for a sphygmomanometer and a glucose test
kit. For the first experimental group, German, Canadian, and
Iranian system metacognitive therapy (Malihialzackerini et al.,
2003) and for the second experimental group cognitive
behavioral therapy (Greenberg and Padesky, 1995) were held
in 8 sessions of 90 minutes, but the control group did not
receive any intervention. The data were analyzed using mixed
analysis of variance.
Findings: The results indicated that metacognitive therapy
and cognitive behavioral therapy increased psychological
well-being and decreased blood pressure and blood sugar at
the end of the interventions and the follow-up period (p<0.05).
The method of metacognitive therapy has caused a further
decrease in blood pressure and blood sugar components, and a
further increase in psychological well-being (p<0.05).
Conclusions: Due to the effect that metacognitive therapy has
on correcting metacognitive beliefs, it can be effective alone
or with complementary therapy in reducing Blood Pressure
and Blood Sugar and increasing psychological well-being in
pregnant women.