Study of the effects of psychological-pharmaceutical Interferes to control symptoms of PMS in women

The aim of this research is to compare the effects of medical intervention with those of psychological intervention on controlling premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and also on reducing the signs of anxiety and depression as a result of this syndrome. To this end, a group of women (all of whom experienced PMS) were introduced to the researcher by gynecologists from six medical centres in Tehran. The volunteers were all between 20 to 35 years of age, married, had post-secondary education, had never borne children and did not at the time of the research suffer from mental or physical malaise. Of these, 36 were randomly selected and were put in three random groups of 12, with group one being the control group, group two under experiment 1 (medical intervention: use of the contraceptive, Cyproterone compound, in three periods) and group three under experiment 2 (psychological intervention: doing relaxation three times a week for three months as well as reading self-help material). Following pretests and posttests (BECK- Depression test, BECK-anxiety test and signs of PMS), the research found that medical and psychological intervention can reduce depression, anxiety and other premenstrual syndrome signs in women.