Combining Psychosocial and Drug Therapy: Hypertension, Depression, and Diabetes

摘要

The conference on Psychosocial and Pharmacological Treatment Approaches brought together behavioral science investigators and biomedical scientists who have worked extensively on the biologic and behavioral aspects of hypertension, depression, and diabetes, along with scientists (both biomedical and behavioral) who have not worked directly in these areas. The participants from the biomedical and behavioral sciences who were outside the fields of hypertension, depression, and diabetes were selected because their concepts, methodology, or data would seem to have great potential for transfer to studies of each of these disorders. In general, the meeting was an opportunity to examine the contribution that scientific knowledge in 'biobehavioral' areas has made and can make to the understanding of psychosocial and pharmacological treatment modalities, and to explore the adaptation of this knowledge in behavioral intervention strategies. The discussions emphasized research approaches that could, in the future, be undertaken profitably in attempts to integrate relevant biobehavioral research into the health sciences that bear directly on medical care.