Susan Alizadehfard; Mina Khalili; Majid Saffarinia
Volume 6, Issue 21 , May 2017, , Pages 17-28
Abstract
Introduction: Migraine is a debilitating disease in world today. Depression, stress and anxiety could be mention as the most important psychological causes of migraine. The present study was to investigate the effectiveness of Fordyce's happiness Training Program on depression, stress, anxiety and migraine's ...
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Introduction: Migraine is a debilitating disease in world today. Depression, stress and anxiety could be mention as the most important psychological causes of migraine. The present study was to investigate the effectiveness of Fordyce's happiness Training Program on depression, stress, anxiety and migraine's symptom. Method: This quasi-experimental research conducted as pretest-posttest design with experimental and control group. The population consisted of all female migraine patients in Tehran (1394) that was visited neurologists for treatment. Then 40 patients from population were selected and randomly divided into two groups (n = 20 per group).The instrument that used in this study was Ahvaz migraine headache questionnaire, DASS-21 questionnaire and Fordyce's happiness training program. Data was compared through covariance analysis. Results: The results showed a significant difference between two groups as reduction of depression, stress and migraine's symptom of experimental group compared with control groups. But there isn't any significant difference in anxiety between two groups. Conclusion: The implicit reference of this study showed the effectiveness of Fordyce's happiness training program on decreasing the level of migraine's symptom through reduction of depression and stress was confirmed.
