Based on World Health Organization’s estimation, chronic diseases will
be the major reason for the death and disability in the third decade of the
21st century. The aim of this research was comparison of the effectiveness
of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Transcranial directcurrent Stimulation (tDCS) and combined treatment in Worry, Emotion
Regulation, Pain Intensity and Quality of Life on fibromyalgia patients.
The study was semi-experimental pre-post treatment design with Sham
Group. The statistical population included fibromyalgia patients who
referred to the rouyan physiotherapy clinic in Tehran during 2020. 48
patients were selected using available sampling and randomly classified
into four experimental and sham groups each with 12 individuals. People
in tDCS group attended in eight 20-minutes treatment sessions, MBCT
group members attended in eight 90-minutes treatment sessions. In
combination treatment group, half of members started to attand in eight
90-minutes (one session per week) MBCT treatment sessions and eight
20-minutes (three sessions per week) tDCS treatment sessions. For other
members of combination group, tDCS treatment sessions started three
weeks before finishing MBCT treatment sessions. So they finished both
treatment sessions simultaneously. Similar to tDCS group, members of
Sham group also attended in eight 20-minutes tDCS treatment sessions
(With Cathode electrode in FP2 and Anode electrode in F3). But they just
received fake stimulation and electricity current terminated after 30
seconds. The members of All groups were asked to complete short form
of McGill Pain questionnaire, Penn. State Worry Questionnaire, The
Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) and SF-36 Quality
of life questionnaire before and after the interventions. The data analysed
using MANCOVA mehthod. The pairwise comparson showed that MBCT
treatment has significant effect on all of variables. The effect of tDCS was
just significant on Pain Severity a