Effectiveness of Mindful Therapy on Mental Vitality and Emotion Cognitive Regulation in the Patients with Migraine Headache

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD Student of Health Psychology, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.

Abstract

Introduction: The emergence of chronic diseases such as migraine headache causes emotional and psychological damages in the patients. Therefore, there should be sufficient attention to the patients’ psychological features besides common medical therapies. According to that, the present study was conducted aiming to investigate the effectiveness of mindful therapy on mental vitality and emotion cognitive regulation in the patients with migraine headache.
Materials and Methods The present study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest, control group and a two-month follow-up design. The statistical population of the study included the patients with migraine headache in the town of Shahin Shahr, Isfahan in the first quarter of 2019. 30 patients with migraine headache were selected through voluntary sampling method and they were randomly replaced into experimental and control groups (15 patients in the experimental and 15 in the control group). The experimental group received eight ninety-minute mindful therapy interventions (Cabat Zin, 2003) during two months. The applied questionnaires in this study included mental vitality questionnaire (Ryan and Fredrick, 1997) and emotion cognitive regulation (Granfski, et.al, 2002). The data from the study were analyzed through repeated measurement ANOVA.
Results: the results showed that mindful therapy significantly influences mental vitality and emotion cognitive regulation in the patients with migraine headache (p<0.001).
Conclusion: According to the findings of the present study it can be stated that mindful therapy can be suggested as an efficient therapy to improve mental vitality and emotion cognitive regulation in the patients with migraine headache owning techniques such as thoughts, emotions and mindful behavior.

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