فهرست مطالب haniye kharazi nutash

Pathologic worry is one of the most important stressor factors affecting the symptoms of migraine headaches among nurses. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is one of the psychological treatments whose feasibility and application in improving the symptoms of the disease have recently attracted the attention of the researchers. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of cognitive-behavioral therapy on migraine headache symptoms and pathologic worry among female nurses.

This research was a quasi-experimental (pre-test - post-test with the control group). The statistical population of this study included all female migraine nurses in Tabriz in the year of 2019 that 30 patients who received the diagnosis of disease based on ICHD-3 criteria and received higher than the standard deviation in the migraine headache symptom questionnaire were selected using purposeful sampling. They were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (15 individuals in each group). The groups completed the survey of Najjarian Migraine Headache Symptoms (1997) and Penn State Worry Meyer et al. (1990) as a pre-test and post-test. Cognitive-behavioral group therapy was applied to the experimental group during eight sessions of 60 minutes (weekly two courses for four weeks), and the control group did not receive the intervention. Data were analyzed using multivariate and univariable covariance analysis in SPSS.23 software.

The results of covariance analysis showed that cognitive-behavioral therapy has a significant effect on reducing migraine headache symptoms and pathologic worry in nurses (P = 0.001).

Considering that cognitive-behavioral therapy is effective in relieving the symptoms of migraine headaches and reducing the pathological worry of nurses with migraine headaches; therefore, the training of this therapeutic approach is suggested as an effective interventional method in the nursing population.

Feeling of low self-efficacy in management of pain and fear of disease progression are some of the problems that necessitates the need for psychological services for people with migraine headaches. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of metacognitive therapy on the self-efficacy of pain and fear of disease progression in nurses with migraine headaches.

This quasi-experimental research had a pretest-posttest design and a control group and was carried out all nurses with migraine in Tabriz, Iran during 2018-2019. In total, 30 individuals who were diagnosed with the disease based on ICHD-3 criteria and by receiving a score higher than standard deviation in the migraine headache symptom questionnaire were selected by purposive sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups of 15 participants. The groups completed the pain self-efficacy questionnaire by Nicholas (1989) and fear of progression questionnaire by Herschbach (2011) as a pre-test and post-test. Group metacognitive therapy was performed in 10 sessions of 60 minutes (two sessions weekly for five weeks) in the experimental group while the control group received no intervention. Data analysis was performed in SPSS version 23 using multivariate and univariate covariance analysis.

According to the results of covariance analysis, the metacognitive therapy had a significant effect on the increase of self-efficacy of pain and reduce of fear of disease progression in nurses with migraine headaches.

Considering that metacognitive therapy was effective in increasing the self-efficacy of pain and reducing the fear of progression in nurses with migraine headache, it is recommended that this therapeutic approach be considered as an effective interventional method at the hospital level.