The Effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Catastrophic and Disabling Pain in Chronic Pelvic Pain in Females Print Persian Abstract Author(s):

Acceptance and commitment therapy is a third generation chronic pain therapy. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment group therapy on catastrophic and disabling pain in chronic pelvic pain in females. This investigation is a randomized clinical trial. Twenty-two (n=22) chronic pelvic pain female patients were selected on the basis of clinical interview in Alzahra and Isfahan Noor Hospitals and were randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. Acceptance and commitment group therapy was administered to the experimental group in eight 90-minute sessions and the control group did not receive any therapy. Pre-test, post-test and a two months follow-up scores on catastrophic and disabling pain questionnaires were administered to the two groups The result of repeated measures analysis of variance showed that acceptance and commitment group therapy had a significant effect of catastrophic and disabling pain in chronic pelvic pain in female patients in the experimental group as compared to the control group (p<0/05). The difference in the two-month follow-up period remained stable.