Comparing the Effectiveness of Compassion Focused Therapy with Transdiagnostic Treatment on Perceived stress in patients with migraine

Migraine is the most common type of chronic headache that psychological factors play a large role in the formation and intensification of it. The purpose of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of compassion focused therapy with Transdiagnostic treatment on migraine symptoms. The present study was of quasi -experimental design with pre-test, post-test and follow up and control group. Population was comprised of people with migraine referring to Shahin Shahr oil industry clinic. A total of 45 migraines patients participated in this study, divided into two experimental groups: compassion focused therapy (15 patients), transdiagnostic (15 patients) and control group (15 patients). Both of the compassion focused therapy and transdiagnostic groups received 8 weekly 90 minutes sessions. Subjects were evaluated using Chohen (1983) Perceived stress scale in pre-test, post-test and follow-up. The results showed that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of pretest and posttest in the experimental and control groups. Also, comparing therapeutic groups showed that there was no significant difference between the efficacy of compassion focused therapy and transdiagnostict reatment on Perceived stress. Data were analyzed using repeated measures variance analysis. Based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that both types of treatments were influential on the reduction of Perceived stress, and compassion focused therapy and transdiagnostic treatments can be used reduce the perceived stress of people with migraine.