Comparing the Effectiveness of Compassionate Emotion-Based Integrated Therapy With Compassion Focused Therapy on Perfectionism and Intolerance of Uncertainty Irrational Beliefs in Patients With Early Headache Symptoms

Globally, the symptoms of primary headache cause more psychological disabilities than other neurological problems. One of the most common psychological disabilities in patients with primary headache symptoms is perfectionism and intolerance of uncertainty. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of Compassionate emotion-based integrated therapy with compassion-based therapy on perfectionism and intolerance of uncertainty in patients with primary headache symptoms.

The study was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test, post-test and follow-up with a control group. The sample consisted of 45 patients with primary headache symptoms referred to the neurology clinic of Khatam Al-Anbia Hospital in Tehran who were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly divided into two experimental groups and a control group (15 people in each group). The experimental groups underwent a Compassionate emotion-based integrated therapy (10 sessions of 60 minutes) and compassion-based therapy (8 sessions of 60 minutes). Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 24 and repeated measures analysis of variance test.

The results showed that in the variable of perfectionism due to the non-observance of the spheric default in the intra group effect section and in the time factor (F = 6/33, df = 1/001 and p <0/05) and the time factor interaction and Group (F = 5/23, df = 2/003 and p <0/01) and uncertainty intolerance due to non-observance of spheric default in intra group effect and time factor (F = 134.86) , df = 1.08 and p <0/01) and time and group factor interaction (F = 30/72, df = 2/17 and p <0/01) between pre-test, post-test and There was a significant difference (p <0/01) with time tracking and interaction with the group (three research groups). Based on the results, Compassionate emotion-based integrated therapy, a treatment that can be used to reduce intolerance in people with primary headache, and a Compassionate emotion-based integrated therapy and compassion-based therapy to reduce patients' perfectionism to the same extent. Suitable for early headache symptoms.