The emotion regulation training to improve quality of life in patients with hypertension
Abstract: Quality of life is
an indicator of health. Quality of life is used to evaluate the physical and
psychosocial effects of an illness suffered by a person, including a person’s
knowledge and perception of the illness. In order to achieve optimal quality of
life, patients with hypertension were reported frequent use defense mechanisms
to repress emotions or regulate emotions.
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of emotion
regulation training to improve the quality of life among patients with hypertension.
The hypothesis of this study stated that there was an influence of emotion
regulation training to quality of life among patients with hypertension.
Methods: The quality of life was measured by using quality of life scale
based on aspect from WHOQOL-BREF (1998). An experimental method used was a pre
and post-test control group design. Data were analysed by using Mann Whitney U.
Results: The researchers found that there was no difference in the level
of quality of life between the experimental group and the control group were not
given training. However, the results of this study indicate that the quality of
life scores in the experimental group increased during follow-up (p=0,002 (p<0,05).
This suggest that quality of life among experimental group has nincreased
compared to the control group, and consequently it accepted the hypothesis.
Conclusion: Emotion regulation strategies can helped a person to cope the
life stress that can be associated with psychological distress and quality of
life.
Author: Kartika Mustafa, H.
Fuad Nashori, Yulianti Dwi Astuti
Journal Code: jpkedokterangg160169