Effect of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy on Psychological Sequels in Hypertensive People (HBP-Patients)

摘要

Hypertension is a common, chronic and relapsing diseasewhich is indeed one of the major public health issues. In ourstudy, we employed quasi-experimental researchmethod.Total 30 patients were randomly divided into twogroups; test (n= 15) and control group (n= 15). To collect therequired information we gave some depression, anxiety andstress-related questionnaire to the members of both thegroups to f ill up in the pre-test, post-test and follow-upphases. The test group received the treatment program ineight sessions of 90 minutes each. The results showed thatthere was a signif icant difference between levels ofdepression, and stress in two groups and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy has signif icantly reduceddepression and stress in patients within the test group. Butno signif icant difference was observed for the component ofanxiety. Thus the program could be referred as effective inreducing psychological consequences in patients withhypertension.