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Abstract Aim and Background: Psychological interventions can have a decreasing effect on the symptoms of patients with somatoform disorders, via improving psychological, social and familial status of the patients. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral stress management (CBSM) on anxiety, depression and stress in female with somatoform vertigo. Methods and Materials: This was a case-control research with pre test, post test and follow up.   That was conducted in2011 in laboratory of psychology at the Isfahan university. The sample was consisted of 28 patients with somatoform vertigo, according to the diagnosis of neurologist . Then, they randomly assigned to experimental and control group and completed The DASS test was used on both groups in pre test post test and follow up phases. The experimental group received CBSM for 10 sessions, each session 2 hour, for a period of 2. 5 months. The data was analyzed by ANCOVA. Results: The mean of anxiety, Stress and depression scores, was significantly decreased in experimental group in posttest and follow up. Conclusions: It is suggested that cognitive behavioral stress management have had a positive effect on decreasing anxiety, stress, and depression in patients with somatoform vertigo.

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Aim and Background: Migraine is a psychosomatic disorder reported as one of the most common disorders of disability among all noncontagious diseases in the world. The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of lifestyle training and therapy products derived traditional medicine on reducing the symptoms in patients who suffer from migraine. Methods and Materials: A semi-experimental method was used along with a pre- and post-test design and control group with a follow-up period of 40 days. Fourthy five people diagnosed with migraine by a neurologist, who were referreing to neurology department of Alzahra hospital, Isfahan, Iran, during winter to spring 2014, were equally randomized into three groups (two experimental and one control group, each group with 15 numbers). Eight training sessions were held for the experimental group of lifestyle training and the group of traditional medicine was visited and treated by a Traditional Medicine specialist. Symptoms of headache and migraine headache were assessed using the Najarian migraine scale through pre-test, post-test and 40-days-after follow-up phase. Findings: Lifestyle training intervention had a significant effect on the post-test scores of the migraine (P < 0.001). But these results were not significant at the follow-up phase. Traditional medicine did not have any significant effect in reducing the symptoms of migraine. In addition, among the demographic variables, age had negative correlation with symptoms of migraine, so that it reduced the symptoms of migraine. Conclusions: Life-style training could be used as a complementary therapy to alleviate the symptoms in migraine sufferers. It is recommended that future researches focus on other approaches to traditional medicine and its effectiveness will be measured in reducing migraine symptoms.