The effectiveness of dialectic behavior therapy on pain self - efficacy and experiential avoidance in the mothers with irritable bowel syndrome

Irritable Bowel Syndrome can influence the patients’ cognitive, emotional and psychological processes in addition to the physical problems that appropriate psychological therapies should be applied to decrease these damages. But can dialectic behavior therapy lead to the improvement of pain self-efficacy and decrease of experiential avoidance in the mothers with Irritable Bowel Syndrome?

therefore the present study was conducted aiming to investigate the effectiveness of dialectic behavior therapy on pain self-efficacy and experiential avoidance in the mothers with Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

it was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest with control group. The statistical population of the current study was the mothers with Irritable Bowel Syndrome referring to circulatory specialists in the city of Zanjan in the second quarter of 2019. 30 mothers with Irritable Bowel Syndrome were selected through available sampling method and they were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 15). The experimental group received dialectic behavior therapy intervention (Linhan, 2004) during two-and-a-half months in ten seventy-five-minute sessions. The applied questionnaires in this study included pain self-efficacy (Nicolas, 1989) and experiential avoidance (Bond et.al., 2011). The data from the study were analyzed through MANCOVA method.

the results showed that the dialectic behavior therapy has significant effect on pain self-efficacy and experiential avoidance in the mothers with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (p<0/001).

according to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that the dialectic behavior therapy can be used as an efficient method to improve pain self-efficacy and decrease of experiential avoidance in the mothers with Irritable Bowel Syndrome.