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The aim of present study was comparison of the effectiveness of autogenic training and progressive muscle relaxation on pain and cardiac enzymes in women with chest pain.

The current research was a pre-test-post-test experiment with a control group and a three-month follow-up. The statistical population included all women with chest pain in Karaj city in 1400. The sampling method was purposeful and 60 patients with chest pain were selected in Shahid Rajaei Karaj Hospital and were placed in three groups: autogenic training, progressive muscle relaxation treatment and control group. Autogenic training consisted of 12 sessions for 90 minutes and progressive muscle relaxation intervention included 8 sessions for 2 hours. To evaluate research variables MC Gill pain intensity and pain catastrophizing were used. Troponin and creatinine phosphokinase kit (CPK-MB) were used to measure cardiac enzymes. Data analysis was done using covariance analysis and post hoc test.

The results showed that progressive muscle relaxation is more effective in reducing pain compared to autogenic training (P<0/05) and there was no significant difference between autogenic training and progressive muscle relaxation on cardiac enzymes (P<0/05).

Considering the greater effectiveness of progressive muscle relaxation on pain reduction, it is suggested that relevant experts use progressive muscle relaxation to reduce the pain intensity of patients with chest pain.

Stress management training with emphasis on thinking styles, as a multifaceted intervention that incorporates social cognitive components, can be considered as an effective stress intervention. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the intervention on the thinking style.

This study was quasi-experimental with pretest and post-test and control group. To do this, the community of Stock Exchange activists were considered as a population who exposed to stress, and the employees of Stock Exchange Company were selected as study samples. The research sample was selected in coordination with the management of the company and through the publication of a written call, and finally, 40 registered volunteers were randomly assigned in two groups (20 experimental and 20 control). The Sternberg and Wagner’s Thinking Styles Inventory (TSI) (1992) was used to measure thinking styles.According to the protocol, the experimental group were subjected to 18 stress management training sessions focusing on thinking style.

The results of covariance analysis showed that stress management training program has been effective on all components of thinking styles (except royal and anarchist thinking styles).