Comparison of the Effectiveness of Hypoventilation Therapy and Emotion Regulation Training on Anxiety Symptoms in Women with GAD

Subject Areas : Psychology

Behzad Taghipuor ¹ , Rogaye Barzegaran ² , Nemat Zali KareNab ³

1 - Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Department of psychology, Ardabil, Iran.
2 - Islamic Azad University Ardabil Branch, Department of Clinical Psychology, Ardabil, Iran.
3 - Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Department of psychology, Ardabil, Iran.

Received: 2020-03-01 Accepted : 2020-05-04 Published : 2020-06-21

Keywords: Anxiety symptoms, general anxiety disorder, hypoventilation therapy, Emotion regulation Training,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to examine the comparison of the effectiveness of hypoventilation therapy and emotion regulation training on anxiety symptoms in women with general anxiety disorder (GAD) in Ardabil. From all patients suffering general anxiety disorder (GAD) who referred to Ardabil Health Comprehensive Centers in Fall 2019, 45 patients were selected through purposive sampling method and were randomly placed into 3 equal experimental and control groups. The Experimental groups exposed to hypoventilation therapy twelve sessions, 17 minutes each and emotion regulation training (8 session 90 minutes each) for 4 weeks, while control group received none. Anxiety Beck (1986) Questionnaires were used as the study instrument. Data were analyzed by using analysis of covariance(ANCOVA). The results showed that there were significant differences in anxiety symptoms scores of the experimental and the control groups. Results of the follow-up test indicated that comparing to emption regulation training the hypoventilation therapy were more effective in reducing anxiety symptoms of women with general anxiety disorder.

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