Parviz Molavi1, Niloofar Mikaeili2*, Sajjad Ghaffari3
The aim of present study was to determine the role of irrational beliefs and emotion regulation in predicting academic burnout among female high school students with migraine.
Using a retrospective method, Participants were recruited among all female high school students in Khoy, Iran. As epidemiology was one of the research aims, number of 500 individuals was selected through randomized cluster sampling procedure. Among 500 subjects, 274 individuals had experienced headache in which 116 had tension headache and 158 had migraine headache. Participants were assessed by Ahvaz Migraine Questionnaire (AMQ), Irrational Beliefs Test (IBT), Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) and Maslach-Burnout Inventory-Student Survey (MBI-SS). Data were analyzed using Pearson's correlation coefficients and multiple regression analyses.
Findings revealed that the prevalence of migraine was 54/8% among female students. irrational beliefs and emotion regulation were associated with migraine headache. Regression analysis indicated that academic burnout can be explained by irrational beliefs and emotion regulation.
