Comparing Mindfulness and Self-regulation in Women with Non-cardiac Chest Pain and normal in Tehran City

Considering to significance of psychological factors in occurrence of physical pain, the current research has been conducted for the purpose of comparing mindfulness and self-regulation in women with non-cardiac chest pain and normal in Tehran city.
The methodology of this research was causal-comparative design. Hence, the research sample including 60 non-cardiac chest pain diagnosed women among referrals of two hospitals and cardiac clinics were selected by accessibility sampling Method and the sample of the healthy group also including: 60 women of accompanying the patients and the personnel of mentioned hospitals without any chest-pain who have certain criteria to participate in research. The subjects responded to two questionnaires including mindful attention awareness scale (Brown & Ryan, 2003) and Self-regulation scale (Ibanez & etal). Research data were analyzed by multi variables Covariance analysis test.
The results of analysis demonstrated significant difference in average values of mindfulness, self-regulation and its components contain positive action, controllability, expression of feeling ,assertiveness & well-being seeking between women with non-cardiac chest pain and normal (P
These findings showed that mindfulness and Self-regulation has relationship to non-cardiac chest pain. These results have important implications about these structures and importance of therapeutic interventions for these patents.