[The effectiveness of psychorelaxation therapy in patients with hypertension].

Abstract

A study of 117 patients with labile essential hypertension before as well as 6 weeks and 12 months after psychorelaxation treatment (PRT), making use of autogenous training, biological feedback or respiratory relaxation training techniques (the main group), and the control patients, exposed to no psychological effects and those on the so-called psychological placebo, demonstrated a significantly greater fall of systolic and diastolic arterial blood pressure, total peripheral resistance and hypertensive response to emotional stress, as well as better psychological adaptation, quality of life and working capacity in the main-group patients, as compared to the controls, by the end of the study.

• Authors: T A Aĭvazian, V P Zaĭtsev, B B Salenko, A P Iurenev, I F Patrusheva
• Journal: Kardiologiia (Kardiologiia) Vol. 28 Issue 3 Pg. 31-4 (Mar 1988) ISSN: 0022-9040 [Print] Russia (Federation)
• Vernacular Title: Effektivnost' psikhorelaksatsionnoĭ terapii u bol'nykh gipertonicheskoĭ bolezn'iu.
• PMID: 3288801 (Publication Type: Clinical Trial, Controlled Clinical Trial, English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adult
• Autogenic Training
• Biofeedback, Psychology
• Humans
• Hypertension (etiology, psychology, therapy)
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Psychophysiologic Disorders (etiology, therapy)
• Psychotherapy
• Relaxation Therapy
• Stress, Psychological (complications, therapy)