The effect of dialectical group therapy on the improvement of psychological symptoms and the quality of life of hypertensive patients

Asefmher, Safora; Bahaenian, Abdul majid; Shahbizadeeh, Fatima

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The effect of dialectical group therapy on the improvement of psychological symptoms and the quality of life of hypertensive patients

Safora Asefmher¹

, Abdul majid Bahaenian ^*

², Fatima Shahbizadeeh³

1- Farhangian University
2- Beheshti University, Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran
3- Islamic Azad University,BirjandBranch,Iran

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Abstract
Background and objective: high blood pressure can cause insufficiency in people or even be associated with cardiovascular diseases, which is actually one of the health problems in industrialized and developing countries. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of dialectical group therapy on the improvement of psychological symptoms and quality of life of patients with high blood pressure.
Methods: The present study was applied in terms of purpose and in a semi-experimental manner with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group, out of 87 volunteers, 30 patients were assigned to two groups based on random sampling. The tools used are Beck Depression Questionnaire (1960), Beck Anxiety Questionnaire (1990), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy Protocol (Linehan, 1993). A one-way analysis of the covariance test was used to test the hypotheses. Data analysis was done through the spss-22 program.
Results: The results indicated a significant difference between the two groups on

Keywords: dialectical therapeutic behavior, depression, anxiety, quality of

Type of Study: Original Research Article | Subject: Psychology