Evaluation of Executive Functions and Metacognitive Beliefs in patients with Depression: A systematic review study

mohsen pasbani ardabili¹ hosein mirhoseyni²

1) Iran university of mohaghegh ardabili Email:
2) Iran university of allameh tabatabaee email:

IOI Code : XDDC-FDFFB
Publication : 1th National Conference on Clinical Psychology of Children and Adolescents (cpcauma.ir)
Abstract :
    Depression is one of the most common psychiatric diagnoses, which can be predicted by blocking a person s innate capacity for growth and development. In the coming years, depression was the second leading cause of disability after ischemic heart disease. Cognitive deficits affect all patients to varying degrees. These cognitive deficits are addressed in various areas such as working memory, problem solving, selective attention, judgment, attention retention, executive functions and the like. In this regard, the present review study was conducted to investigate executive functions and metacognitive beliefs in patients with depression. In this systematic meta-analysis study, published articles about patients with depression during the years 2010 to 2020 were reviewed. In order to obtain relevant scientific documents, the keywords of executive functions, metacognitive beliefs, depression in the title and abstracts of articles published in reputable domestic and international scientific databases such as SID, Magiran, Google Scholar, were searched. And all related Persian articles were listed. Out of a total of 935 related articles published up to 2020, 18 qualified Persian articles were reviewed. According to the results of the studied studies, depressed patients had a low level of executive functions and metacognitive beliefs. In general, the results of the research indicate the low and weak performance functions and metacognitive beliefs in depressed people. For this purpose, it is necessary to take measures to increase and improve the performance functions and metacognitive beliefs of depressed people before drug treatments.

Keywords : executive functions metacognitive beliefs depression review