PLACEBO-CONTROLLED EVALUATION OF ABBREVIATED PROGRESSIVE MUSCLE-RELAXATION AND OF RELAXATION COMBINED WITH COGNITIVE THERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF TENSION HEADACHE

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作者
BLANCHARD, EB [1 ]
APPELBAUM, KA [1 ]
RADNITZ, CL [1 ]
MICHULTKA, D [1 ]
MORRILL, B [1 ]
KIRSCH, C [1 ]
HILLHOUSE, J [1 ]
EVANS, DD [1 ]
GUARNIERI, P [1 ]
ATTANASIO, V [1 ]
ANDRASIK, F [1 ]
JACCARD, J [1 ]
DENTINGER, MP [1 ]
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[1] UNION UNIV,ALBANY,NY 12208
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10.1037/0022-006X.58.2.210
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B849 [应用心理学];
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040203 ;
摘要
Sixty-six tension headache patients were randomly assigned to one of four conditions for 8 weeks: (a) progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) alone; (b) PMR plus cognitive therapy (PMR + Cog); (c) pseudomeditation, a credible attention-placebo control; or (d) continued headache monitoring. A comparison of overall headache activity (headache index), derived from a daily headache diary, for 4 weeks before treatment to 4 weeks after treatment, revealed that active treatment (PMR and PMR + Cog) was superior to either control condition. Moreover, level of headache medication consumption decreased significantly for the active treatment groups. Although headache-index comparisons of the two active treatments showed no advantage for adding cognitive therapy to PMR, a measure of clinically significant change showed a trend for PMR + Cog to be superior to PMR alone.
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