The Effectiveness of Treatment Based On Emotional Efficiency on Pain Anxiety and Pain Acceptance in Women with Chronic Low Back Pain in Isfahan

Chronic Low back pain (LBP) is one of the top 10 diseases that account for the most years of life with disability worldwide.

The research method was a semi-experimental pre-test-post-test type with a control group and a 45-day follow-up period. The statistical population of this research included all women with chronic Low back pain who referred to the hospital and specialized pain clinics in Isfahan city in the summer quarter of 1401. In this research, 30 patients suffering from chronic back pain were selected by available sampling method and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (15 patients in each group). The experimental group received 8 sessions of 90 minutes during two months of treatment based on emotional efficiency, but the control group did not receive any intervention. The questionnaires used in this research included pain anxiety, pain acceptance. The experimental group received mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy during 8 90-minute group sessions, but no intervention was performed on the control group. The data was analyzed through SPSS-23 software and with the analysis of variance test with repeated measures.

Treatment based on emotional efficiency had a significant effect in reducing pain anxiety symptoms and improving pain acceptance in the post-examination and follow-up stages.

Treatment based on emotional efficiency is suggested as an effective treatment in health centers to improve pain acceptance and reduce pain anxiety in women with chronic low  back pain.