Evaluation of a minimal-therapist-contact thermal biofeedback treatment program for essential hypertension.
Biofeedback Self Regul
; 12(2): 93-103, 1987 Jun.
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ABSTRACT
We compared a clinic-based regimen of 16 individual sessions (2 per week) of thermal biofeedback with a largely home-based regimen of 5 sessions (spread over 8 weeks) for the treatment of essential hypertension in patients who required at least two drugs to maintain control of blood pressure (BP). On the basis of the clinical end point of being successfully withdrawn from the second stage medication while BP remained under control, the clinic-based regimen (5 of 9) was superior (chi less than (1) = 4.0, p less than .05) to the home-based regimen (1 of 9). Internal analyses point to more frequently obtaining a hand temperature of at least 95 degrees F by the office-based patients as possibly the reason for the difference.
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Assunto principal:
Autocuidado
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Biorretroalimentação Psicológica
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Hipertensão
Tipo de estudo:
Evaluation_studies
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Biofeedback Self Regul
Ano de publicação:
1987
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Article