The Effect of Individual Counseling on Pain Quality in Women with Cyclic Mastalgia a Clinical Trial

Backgrounds: Due to the high prevalence of cyclic mastalgia and disagreement about its therapeutic methods, this study aimed to investigate the effect of individual counseling on the quality of pain in women with cyclic mastalgia.Material and Method: This study was a randomized controlled trial that was conducted in 2017 on eligible women with cyclic mastalgia that they had referred to health centers in Karaj. The subjects were randomly assigned to two intervention and control groups. Intervention was conducted in four individual counseling sessions. With a special visual analog scale for pain and cardiff's breast pain chart, cyclic mastalgia was diagnosed. With the McGill Pain quality questionnaire, pain was assessed before and after the consultation. T-test and ANCOVA were used to examine the means of pain quality for before and after of intervention.Result: Two groups in terms of age, marital status, educational level, occupation, spouse'seducation, husband's job, history of lactation, history of surgery, or breast sampling, history of benign breast disease, history of nipple secretion breast, history of breast injury, were no significant differences. After the intervention, comparison of the McGill mean score test between the two groups of intervention and control in all of pain dimensions, showed a significant difference (P=0.001).Conclusion: The study showed that counseling can lead to improvement of pain quality indices in women who are affected. As a result, counseling can be suggested as a suitable treatment for mild to moderate pain.