The effectiveness of treatment based on acceptance and commitment on the fusion of thoughts, emotion regulation and health anxiety of girls with menstrual pain syndrome

Most women of reproductive age experience disorders related to the menstrual cycle called premenstrual syndrome. This research was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of treatment based on acceptance and commitment on mixing thoughts, regulation of excitement and health anxiety of girls with premenstrual syndrome.

This was a semi -experimental study with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of the research was all the girls who were studying in the second stage of secondary school in Gorgan in the academic year 2022-2023, 30 female students of the second secondary level were selected in a multi-stage cluster and randomly placed in 2 experimental and control groups (15 people in each group). The research tools included Steiner's premenstrual screening questionnaires, Wells' thought confusion, Garnefski and Kraaij's difficulty in regulating excitement, and Salkovskis' health anxiety. Data analysis was done with SPSS-24 software and statistical methods of univariate covariance analysis at a significance level of p<0.05.

The results of the research showed that the pre-test Averages of the variables of mixing of thoughts, emotion regulation and health anxiety before the intervention in the experimental group were 129.67, 111.92, and 162.85 respectively, and after the intervention, it was 93.66, 78.02, and 146.84. were changed In other words, treatment based on acceptance and commitment is effective on mixing thoughts (P<0.001), emotion regulation (P<0.001) and health anxiety (P<0.001) in girls with premenstrual syndrome.

The results of the research indicate that the treatment based on acceptance and commitment led to a reduction in confusion of thoughts, difficulty in regulating excitement and health anxiety in girls with premenstrual syndrome. The use of this treatment is recommended by mental health specialists and therapists in the field of rehabilitation of girls with premenstrual syndrome.