Effectiveness of Mindful Therapy on Severity of pain and Psychological well-being in the Patients with Migraine Headache

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 Severity of pain and Psychological well-being in the patients with migraine headache.

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 who had referred to Milad, Hadi, Beshtam and Yari centers. 30 patients with migraine headache were selected through available 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 Severity of pain questionnaire (Melzack, 1975) and Psychological well-being (Ryff, 1980). The data from the study were analyzed through repeated measurement ANOVA by SPSS statistical software 23.

the results showed that mindful therapy significantly influences Severity of pain and Psychological well-being in the patients with migraine headache (p<0.001).

According to the findings of the present study it can be stated that mindful therapy can be suggested as an efficient therapy to decrease Severity of pain and improve Psychological well-being in the patients with migraine headache owning techniques such as thoughts, emotions and mindful behavior.