Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 . Assistant Professor, Psychology, Payam-e Noor University; e-mail: mttmaster20@yahoo.com

2 Assistant Professor, Psychology, Payam-e Noor University

3 . MA Holder, Psychology

Abstract

Hypertension (high blood pressure) is one of the most important psycho-physiological disorders that influence happiness, psychological well-being and life quality and cause heart attacks and arteriosclerosis. The present research seeks to study the effectiveness of group stress inoculation training (SIT) in the systolic and diastolic blood pressure and life quality of women suffering from high blood pressure. The method of research was semi-experimental, and its design was pretest-posttest with control group. Through life quality questionnaire and manometer, a sample of 30 women with low life quality and blood pressure of more than 130/90 mmHg were selected and voluntarily divided into experimental and control groups. Experimental group received 10 sessions of SIT techniques while control group received no training. Then, the life quality and blood pressure of the participants were measured again. The data were analyzed using ANCOVA for the first and second hypotheses and t-test of the comparison of the independent means with differential scores for the third hypothesis. The results showed that the observed F-value in both systolic (3.09) and diastolic (3.17) blood pressure and the observed t-test in the life quality (3.30) were significant (p≤0.05). Theresearch, thus, underlines the important role SIT method plays in decreasing systolic and diastolic blood pressure and increasing life quality of women suffering from high blood pressure.

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