The Effectiveness of Psychological Intervention Using Islamic Attitude on Symptoms of Migraine and Stress in Women Patients with Migraine Headache

This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of designed psychological intervention using Islamic attitude on symptoms of migraine and stress in women patients with migraine headache. In this study a quasi-experimental design with pretest- posttest with experimental and control group was used. The data gathering instrument was Ahvaz Migraine headache Questionnaire (AMQ) and (PSS-14) Questionnaire. The population of this research included women patients who were diagnosed by a neurologist with migraine. By snowball sampling 26 women patients with migraine headache were determined and assigned randomly to experimental and control groups. Then the experimental group was received 10 weekly sessions (90 minutes) of intervention. The results of covariance analysis have shown that the differences between experimental and control groups in stress score and symptoms of migraine were significant; and so the intervention had decreased the level of migraine`s symptoms and stress in women patients with migraine headache. Results have shown that designed psychological intervention using Islamic attitude is an effective therapy for decreasing the level of migraine`s symptoms and stress in women patients with migraine headache.