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- Title
Puede una intervención biopsicosocial reducir los niveles de presión arterial?
- Authors
Arrivillaga, Marcela; De Rodríguez, Delcy Cáceres; Correa, Diego; Holguín, Lyda Eugenia; Varela, María Teresa
- Abstract
Objective: To determine the effectiveness of a biopsychosocial intervention program, to reduce blood pressure levels. Methodology: Study with two randomly assigned groups (expermental group -EG- and control group -CG-), with intra and intergroup analysis, pre-post intervention. 94 controlled hypertension patients from a Health Care Service from Cali, Colombia were included. Systolic (SBP) and Diastolic (DBP) blood pressure levels measured at pre and post-intervention. Results: SBP in EG reduced significantly (p=0.031), while DBP did not shows statistically significant differences after the application of the psychosocial intervention program, remaining in controlled levels. Comparing the groups, significant differences in SBP were found (p=0.021 y p=0.017) between EG and CG after intervention. No differences were found between young adults, intermediate adults and older adults, and between men and women. Conclusions: This study supports the evidence about cognitive-behavioral biosychsocial interventions in multidisciplinary teams having significant effects in the reduction of hypertension levels.
- Subjects
BLOOD pressure; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL care; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; OPERANT behavior
- Publication
MedUNAB, 2006, Vol 9, Issue 1, p20
- ISSN
0123-7047
- Publication type
Article