Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Feeling Hope and pain management of Women with Chronic pain

 Aims and background: The pain experience in people with chronic pain can effect on psychological and social aspects, also influenced. The purpose of this research was to investigate the efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Feeling Hope and pain management of Women with Chronic pain. Materials and methods: The present research was of applied research type. The research method was semiempirical with a pretest-posttest with control group design. Populations were all women with chronic pain were referred to Gilan pain clinic and were selected through voluntary sampling method. Sample numbers were 20 Woman that gained lowest scores on Feeling Hope And pain management randomly assigned to control and experiment groups (each group included 10 Woman). The experiment group exposed to 8 instruction sessions of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. But the control group did not receive any intervention. The data were analyzed through descriptive statistics method and Ancova in SPSS v.20. Findings: The multivariate covariance analysis results for Feeling Hope (F=1.14) and pain management (F=1.11) suggested that there was a significant difference between the Women of experiment and control groups (P< 0.01). According to the posttest scores of the experiment control groups for these two variables, it was recognized that the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy has led to increase in Feeling Hope and pain management among the Women of the experiment group in comparison to the control group in the posttest stage. Conclusion: The results of this study showed that participating in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy meeting can affect promotion of Feeling Hope and pain management of Women with Chronic pain. Therefore it is possible to raise the level of Acceptance and Commitment by increasing the Feeling Hope and Upgrade pain management.