The Impact of Life Quality Therapy on Tolerating Distress, Stress, Anxiety and Depression in Women Suffering from Tension Headache

Mohammad Bagher Kajbaf, Fariba Hosseini, Amir Amir Qomrani and Nazanin Razzazian

Global Journal of Health Science, 2017, vol. 9, issue 3, 148

Abstract: INTRODUCTION- Present study is about determining the effectiveness of life quality therapy on tolerating distress, stress, anxiety and depression in women suffering from Tension Headache.METHODS & MATERIALS- Study design is semi-experimental through pre-test, post-test with control group. population includes all the women suffering from tension headache in Kermanshah city during 2014, 30 people have been chosen through random sampling and they have been put in two groups of experiment and Control (each group has 15 members). In pre-test, the members of both groups have applied the questionnaires of Distress Tolerance (Simons & Gaher, 2005), Questionnaire of Distress, Anxiety and Stress Scale (Lavibond & Lavibond (1995) and the questionnaire of the researcher designed for demographic information. Then experiment group have passed eight 90-minute sessions of life therapy quality while there happened no any intervention for control group. Both groups have been assessed through the mentioned questionnaire again in post-test and follow-up steps. Collected data have been analyzed through Variance Analysis in repetitive ranges.RESULTS- The results have indicated that quality therapy have been effective on improving stress, anxiety, depression and tolerating distress in women suffering from tension headache during post-test and follow-up (P<0.05).DISCUSSION- It can use life quality therapy as one of the effective therapies for resolving psychological disorders.

Date: 2017
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