Effectiveness of minfullness-based cognitive therapies on anxiety and psychological well-being of hypertension stricken patients’ IU

Abstract

The research applied a semi-experimental method using pre-test and post-test with the control group. The statistical community is made up of all hypertension-stricken patients, extracted from Babol-based Shahid Beheshti Hospital during three months from August to October 2015 among the mentioned hospital files. Out of this, 32 patients have been selected via nonrandom sampling method and randomly included in the experimental and control groups; The experimental group has been provided with eight 2.5 h sessions of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT). The data have been collected through the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale (IUS). To compare the two experimental and control groups’ mean scores, the effect of pre-and post-test scores and other interventive variables on post-test scores has been applied. The covariance test results indicated that the pre-test didn’t exert a remarkable effect on post-test-derived results and also MBCT led to the experimental group’s IU decrease. The findings imply that applying MBCT has directly affected the hypertension sufferers’ IU drop.