Comparing the effectiveness of group training of psychological capitals with mindfulness based cognitive therapy on depression of patients with migraine in Isfahan

For many years, psychological treatments for acute biological patients, along with other drug treatments, have been the answer to the patients' psychological problems. The present study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of group training of psychological capitals with cognitive therapy based on mindfulness on depression of migraine patients in Isfahan city.

The design of this research was a Quasi-Experimental type of pre-test, post-test, and follow-up with a control group. The statistical population of the study was made up of all migraine patients in Isfahan city in 1400. The research sample consisted of 54 patients with migraine who were selected by the available sampling method and randomly assigned to two experimental groups and one control group. The experimental groups underwent 14 sessions of psychological capital training, and the second experimental group underwent 8 sessions of cognitive therapy based on mindfulness. The control group did not receive any intervention. The research tool included the Beck Depression Questionnaire and the data were analyzed using two-way repeated measures ANOVA. 

The difference in depression scores in the pre-test and follow-up test in the three groups is significant (p<0.001) and the difference between the groups in the research stages (interaction of time in the group) is equal to 72.9%.

Considering the effect of cognitive therapy based on mindfulness and psychological capital training on the depression of migraine patients, these treatments become an effective factor in improving the depression of these patients.