Discovering the factors affecting the quality of life of married women with breast cancer and comparing the effectiveness of the therapy protocol with mindfulness therapy on the quality of marital relationships, alexithymia and their marital adjustment.

General purpose: 1- Discovery of factors affecting the quality of married life of married women with breast cancer. 2- Comparison of the effectiveness of a treatment package based on the components affecting the quality of married life with mindfulness therapy on the quality of marital relationships, emotional dyslexia, and marital adjustment of married women with breast cancer.

A clinical trial with a control group with parallel and randomized groups. block randomization design was used for randomization.

The participants will be evaluated based on the entry criteria by attending the centers of Babol city, and then they will be randomly assigned to one of the groups, and the intervention sessions will be conducted.

Entry criteria: female gender, education of at least a diploma, suffering from breast cancer for at least one year, no history of neurological and psychological disease, living in Babol city, having the ability and interest to participate in the educational and treatment program, informed consent for Participating in research, not participating in training classes and similar methods with the intended intervention. Inclusion criteria: unwillingness to participate in the study, diagnosis of other severe mental or physical diseases, advanced stages of cancer.

For the first group, training sessions on the components affecting marital quality, for the second group, cognitive therapy based on mindfulness will be conducted. The control group will not receive any intervention and will be considered as a waiting group.

Quality of marital relations; Alexithymia; Marital compatibility

Block randomization By using the block randomization method by the statistical consultant, randomization is done in 2 groups of training components affecting the quality of married life and mindfulness therapy as follows: First, a list of names of eligible people is provided and coded. In block randomization, the number of participants in all groups will be very close to each other. This is done by making blocks of sequences and intersections so that the same number of participants are assigned to the study groups within each group. First, we code the groups based on Latin letters as follows: A = Teaching the components affecting the quality of married life, B = Mindfulness treatment In this study, with two groups A and B, we create the following two groups and assign numbers 1 to 2 to each of them: -AB-BA Then, using the table of random numbers, we contract that whenever the numbers 1 and 2 appear in order, one of these blocks will be selected, and if another number appears, we will assume it as null and proceed to the next selection. In fact, we have obtained a random sequence of numbers with the table of random numbers, where we consider the order of allocation for each number. In this way, the number of people in the groups will be almost equal.