Survey study, 2021
Does cognitive-behavioral emotional regulation training help women with PMDD?
Yes. Training significantly improved marital happiness and emotional regulation in women with PMDD. This was a small study with a control group, so the effect is promising but needs confirmation in larger studies.
What they did
Semi-experimental study with pre-test/post-test design. 30 women with PMDD were split into experimental (15) and control (15) groups. The experimental group received 12 weekly sessions of 90-minute cognitive-behavioral emotion regulation training. Both groups completed questionnaires about marital happiness and emotional regulation before and after.
What they found
Cognitive-behavioral training significantly improved marital happiness and cognitive emotional regulation in the experimental group compared to control (P<0.05). The control group showed no such improvement.
What it means for you
Cognitive-behavioral training may help women with PMDD improve emotional regulation and relationship satisfaction. This is a promising result but the study is small and limited to one hospital in Iran. Longer-term effects are unknown.
30
women (15 in each group)
12
training sessions
90
minutes per session
About the study
- Original title
- The effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral training of emotional regulation on marital happiness and cognitive emotional regulation of women with symptoms of premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)
- Authors
- Shahnaz Nouhi, Malake Nasery Fadafan, Roza salehian et al.
- Journal
- International Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences
- Year
- 2021
- Study design
- Survey study
- Participants
- 30
- What was tested
- Cognitive-behavioral emotion regulation training: 12 sessions of 90 minutes each, once per week
- Open access
- Yes
- Read the paper
- doi.org/10.22037/ijabs.v8i4.32855
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