Investigating the effect of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) on pain intensity of primary dysmenorrhea

Investigating the effect of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy on pain intensity of primary dysmenorrhea

Randomized controlled clinical trial with parallel control group

The research will be carried out in the girls' dormitory of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences. eligible individuals will be assigned randomly for intervention and control group. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy will be performed for intervention group. control group would not receive any intervention. Due to the nature of the study, blinding is not possible. Pain intensity of dysmenorrhea will be assessed 1 and 2 months before intervention and 1 and 2 months after intervention for both groups.

Inclusion criteria: the presence of moderate to severe dysmenorrhea in most menstrual cycles, being bachelor, the fertility age (18-45 years), residence in the dormitories of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, and willingness to participate in the study. Exclusion criteria are secondary dysmenorrhea and its underlying causes including the history of endometriosis, adenomyosis, sub-acute endometritis, pelvic inflammatory diseases, copper intrauterine devices, ovarian cysts, congenital anomalies of the pelvis and cervix, history of known psychological illnesses, addiction to drugs, history of seizure, having strabismus and vision problems, history of pelvic or abdominal surgery, cardiovascular and pulmonary respiratory disease, and the graduation during the follow-up period.

Intervention group: eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy will be implemented through 6 sessions, which will be held twice a week. The duration of the treatment sessions is 30 to 90 minutes. Control group: no intervention will be implemented.

Pain intensity of primary dysmenorrhea

Sampling will be done through a convenience method. The researcher will refer to the dormitories of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, and eligible people will be enrolled to the study. A random allocation of the participants into two groups will be done by the simple random blocking method with 4 blocks. In the block randomization method, the assignment sequence will be written before the beginning of the research. Given that the two groups will be studied, four blocks will be used and each letter will be assigned to one group (A: EMDR group; B: control group). All possible modes for the 4 blocks will be written and numbered as fillows: 1.AABB 2.ABAB 3.BBAA 4.BABA 5.ABBA 6.BAAB Next, using a simple random method and the table of random numbers, a number of blocks will be selected from the blocks of numbers, and by writing the contents of the blocks for those numbers (as long as the sample size is determined), the sequence of random allocation is determined. For example, if the numbers obtained are 1,2,2,3 the assignment sequence will be as follows: AABB ABAB ABAB BBAA Then, inside the envelopes in the matte packet, the type of intervention is written in the assignment sequence and encoded on the envelope. In this case, a questionnaire with the same code will be completed for the person receiving the code 1 intervention. Due to the nature of the study, there is no possibility of blindness.

Data set and questionniares

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