Effect of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy on Psychological Sequelsin HypertensivePeople(HBPPatients)

Abstract

Hypertension is a common, chronic and relapsing disease which is indeed one of the major public health issues. In our study, we employed quasi-experimental research method.Total 30 patients were randomly divided into two groups; test (n= 15) and control group (n= 15). To collect the required information we gave some depression, anxiety and stress-related questionnaire to the members of both the groups to f ill up in the pre-test, post-test and follow-up phases. The test group received the treatment program in eight sessions of 90 minutes each. The results showed that there was a signif icant difference between levels of depression, and stress in two groups and mindfulnessbased cognitive therapy has signif icantly reduced depression and stress in patients within the test group. But no signif icant difference was observed for the component of anxiety. Thus the program could be referred as effective in reducing psychological consequences in patients with hypertension. AbstractIntroduction: