Background: Menstrual pain is the most common pain and one of the main causes of referral to a doctor among young women. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of Achillea millefolium (Yarrow) and Matricaria chamomile plants to treat menstrual pain.
Methods: This double-blind randomized controlled trial study was performed on 50 female students of Kurdistan Medical Sciences residing in dormitory in 2018. Individuals were randomly divided into two groups of chmomile and yarrow using sealed envelopes. Twenty for people received 250 mg chamomile capsules every 8 hours and 26 people received 150 mg hydroalcoholic capsules of yarrow every 8 hours during the first three days of menstruation in two menstrual cycles. The data collection tool was a questionnaire and the severity of pain was assessed using visual analogue scale for the pain (VAS).
Results: There was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of pain severity and duration of pain before taking the drug (p > 0.05). The average pain severity in the first menstrual cycle in the two groups decreased significantly (p< 0.05), which was more noticeable in the yarrow group. However, the average pain severity in the yarrow capsule group was lower than that of the chamomile capsule group, but this difference was not statistically significant (p > 0.05).
Conclusion: Both capsules of yarrow and chamomile reduce the severity of pain, but the yarrow capsule, with its long-lasting sedative effect, proved more helpful to reduce the severity of menstrual pain and could be effective in solving one of the issues among women.
Background and Objectives: Parenting as a set of behaviors by parents to raise their children has always been a challenging topic for parents and educating parents is one of the basic ways to reduce these challenges. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of parenting education package on reducing the problems of aggression and lawlessness in adolescents in Ahvaz.
Materials and Methods:The present study was a quasi-experimental design with experimental and control groups with pretest-posttest. Out of all parents with adolescent children with aggression and lawlessness problems referred to Ahvaz counseling centers in 2020, 34 people were selected and randomly (lottery) divided into experimental (17 people) and control (17 people) groups. The experimental group was trained in parenting package for 8 sessions and the control group did not receive any training. The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) was used to collect data. Data were analyzed using one-variable analysis of covariance.
Results:The results showed that parenting education had a significant effect on the score of law-breaking problems (F=18.335, p<0.001) and aggression (F=15.346, p<0.001).
Conclusion:Based on the findings of the present study, it can be concluded that the developed package of adolescent parenting is effective in improving the problems of aggression and lawlessness of adolescents, and in order to improve the behavioral problems of adolescents, this package is recommended to the parents.
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