期刊名称：International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy
印刷版ISSN：1577-7057
出版年度：2014
卷号：14
期号：3
页码：433-444
语种：English
出版社：Universidad de Almería
摘要：Hypertension is a major health problem, and noncompliance with treatment has been identied as the predominant reason for failure of hypertension therapy. Although it is generally assumed to be a silent disease, many hypertensive patients develop false beliefs concerning specic symptoms they use to estimate if their blood pressure (BP) is high. These false beliefs should be modied in order to improve control of the disease. The study presents a feedback procedure applied in a sample of 60 hypertensive patients expressing beliefs in false symptoms associated with their BP. After application of the procedure, 88% of the patients modied or eliminated their beliefs in false symptoms, and we found signicant differences (p <.05) in the reports of adherence to pharmacological treatment before and after receiving the feedback procedure, as well as a signicant improvement in the reports of difculties with the other treatment elements (diet, exercise, control of emotions). The therapeutic possibilities of an easy procedure to apply within the healthcare setting is discussed.
其他摘要：Hypertension is a major health problem, and noncompliance with treatment has been identied as the predominant reason for failure of hypertension therapy. Although it is generally assumed to be a silent disease, many hypertensive patients develop false beliefs concerning specic symptoms they use to estimate if their blood pressure (BP) is high. These false beliefs should be modied in order to improve control of the disease. The study presents a feedback procedure applied in a sample of 60 hypertensive patients expressing beliefs in false symptoms associated with their BP. After application of the procedure, 88% of the patients modied or eliminated their beliefs in false symptoms, and we found signicant differences (p <.05) in the reports of adherence to pharmacological treatment before and after receiving the feedback procedure, as well as a signicant improvement in the reports of difculties with the other treatment elements (diet, exercise, control of emotions). The therapeutic possibilities of an easy procedure to apply within the healthcare setting is discussed.
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