The effectiveness of Behavioral Activation on mental rumination, emotion regulation and psychological symptoms in female patients with high blood pressure in the health care industry of the northwestern oil industry

Subject Areas : Woman and family

Alireza Agdamibaher ¹ , Ali Khademi ² , Ali Shaker Dolag ³

1 - PhD Student in Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran. [e-mail]
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran.

Received: 2022-10-28 Accepted : 2023-02-20 Published : 2024-09-21

Keywords: emotion regulation, Hypertension, Behavioral activation, mental rumination, psychosomatic symptoms,

Abstract :

Research has shown that hypertension is a medical condition which adversely affects the patients’ psychological charecteristics. Furthermore, the relevant studies have indicated that behavioral activation may have a beneficial impact on the psychological well-being of patiens who suffer from different medical conditions. Notwithstanding, there is a lack of research on the effect of this approach on the psychological charecteristics of hypertensive patients.The present study strived to determine the effect of behavioral activation on hypertensive patienst’ mental rumination, emotion regulation, and psychosomatic symptoms.This study adopted a pretest-tretament-posttest quasi-experimental design to attain its objectives. More specifically, first, the researchers selected a sample of 30 hypetensive female patiennts from among the female patients who referred to Petroleum Industry Health Organization in Tabriz (Iran). Second, they randomly assigned the participants to an experimental group and a control group.Third, they administered Ruminative Response Scale (Nolen-Hoeksema & Morrow, 1991), Psychosomatic Complaints Scale (Tanaka & Sakata, 2004), and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (Gratz & Roemer, 2004) to the groups of the study as pretests. Fourth, the researchers provided the experimental group with behavioral activation treatment during 10 sessions. Fifth, they administered the relevant questionnaires of the study to the groups anew as posttests. Finally, they performed the data analysis using SPSS 23. Based on the results, behavioral activation significantly reduced hypertensive patients’ mental rumination, alleviated their psychosomatic symptoms, and improved their emotion regulation (p<0.05).  It was concluded that behavioral activation can be used to improve the psychological well-being of female hypertensive patients.

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