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- Title
The Effectiveness of Healthy Lifestyle Training and Existential Therapy on Distress Tolerance, Health Concerns and Blood Pressure in Elderly People with Hypertension.
- Authors
Asgari, Parviz; Bozorgi, Zahra Dasht
- Abstract
This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of intervention including health-oriented lifestyle training and existential therapy on distress tolerance, health concerns, and blood pressure in elderly people with hypertension. The research method was quasi-experimental. This study was performed on 120 older women with hypertension referred to Mehr hospital of Ahvaz, Iran in 2019. They were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly divided into three groups. The first experimental group received 12 sessions of 60 min on a health-oriented lifestyle. The second group received ten sessions of 60 min on existential therapy. The control group did not receive an intervention program. The research instrument included the Distress Tolerance Scale (DTS), Anxious Thoughts Inventory (AnTI), and Sphygmomanometer. Multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) was performed in SPSS software version 21.0 to analyze the data. The results showed that health-oriented lifestyle training effectively reduced blood pressure but had no effect on distress tolerance. Also, existential therapy significantly increased distress tolerance in the elderly but did not affect blood pressure. Moreover, there was no significant difference between health-oriented lifestyle and existential therapy regarding health concerns' effectiveness. The results showed that health-oriented lifestyle training and existential therapy effectively increased distress tolerance and health concerns, and improved blood pressure in older women with hypertension. Therefore, it is recommended that clinical psychologists and therapists use health-oriented lifestyle training and existential therapy as adjuncts to other therapies to improve the psychological health of clients.
- Subjects
AHVAZ (Iran); PSYCHOLOGICAL distress; BLOOD pressure; OLDER people; CONVENIENCE sampling (Statistics); OLDER women; OLDER patients; TOLERATION
- Publication
Current Psychology, 2023, Vol 42, Issue 16, p13951
- ISSN
1046-1310
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12144-021-02647-x