WORKSITE-BASED BEHAVIORAL TREATMENT OF MILD HYPERTENSION

  • 1 January 1982
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 24  (7) , 511-514
Abstract
Two behaviorally oriented, nonpharmacological treatments, rotational-emotive therapy/assertiveness training (RET/AT) and anxiety management training (AMT), and 1 control treatment, hypertension education counseling (HEC), were compared in reducing blood pressures of 22 white-collar mild hypertensives in a worksite setting. Results showed significant reductions by posttreatment in diastolic pressures of participants in the 2 behavioral treatment conditions but no significant differential treatment effects across groups. Systolic pressure reductions by posttreatment were significant only in the RET/AT training condition. Reductions were generally maintained at an 8-wk follow-up.

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