Effectiveness of Group Therapy Stress management on depression and blood pressure in female patients with hypertension

Hypertention is one of the main issues public health. The aim of the current research was to investigate the efficacy of group therapy Stress management on depression and blood pressure in female patients with hypertension. For this purpose, 30 female patients with hypertension were selected using simple random sampling (each group consist of 15 patients). The instruments of research included Beck depression Inventory and mercury blood pressure measuring equipment. The design was semi experimental and group therapy Stress management was performed in experimental group in 8 sessions. the result showed that group Stress management therapy intervention were reduce depression and blood pressure in female patients with hypertension (p0/01). Therefor Stress management can be used patients withhypertension to improve patient's blood pressure.