The Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment therapy on mental Health in women with Chronic pain

Headache chronic is a degenerative condition, So that the person suffering not only Stress-induced pain, But faced are many other factors causing stress that affects various parts of his life. This study was examined the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy approach, on mental health of women with chronic headaches. In this study which was a Quasi-Experimental with pre-test, post-test and control group, the sample group was selected by available sampling method from patients referred to the Baghiyat Allah pain clinic. Therefore 30 female subjects were chosen randomly and assigned to two control & experimental groups (each with 15 subjects) and were evaluated based on international headache society criteria and physician diagnosis. To assess the mental health sample in pre-test and posttest was used questionnaire of 28 questions. The experimental group was administered in 8 sessions of one hour, once a week acceptance and commitment therapy intervention approach. But the control group received no intervention. Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance with the software SPSS. The results showed after the intervention acceptance and commitment therapy approach there was a significant difference between the two experiment and control all subscale of mental health (p<0.001). The results emphasize the importance of this intervention in psychosomatic diseases and provide new horizons in clinical interventions.