ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
Effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy for hypertension-related psychological distress: a two-phase randomized controlled trial in a Nigerian tertiary hospital.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: Hypertension is a major contributor to cardiovascular morbidity globally and is frequently accompanied by psychological distress, including anxiety and depression. Evidence on the efficacy of psychological interventions, particularly Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), for hypertension-related distress remains limited in the Sahara South of Africa. Objective: This study examined the effectiveness of an 8-week CBT program in reducing psychological distress among adults with hypertension attending a Nigerian tertiary hospital, compared with a waitlist/usual care control group. Methods: A two-phase randomized controlled trial was conducted. In Phase I, 242 hypertensive patients were screened for psychological distress. Phase II involved 42 participants with moderate to severe distress (mean age = 44.9 years) who were randomly assigned to either an 8-week CBT intervention or a waitlist control, continuing usual hypertension care. Psychological distress was assessed using the Symptom Checklist-13 (SCL-13). Data were analyzed per protocol using paired and independent Results: The CBT group showed significant reductions in distress from baseline (M = 13.78, SD = 3.04) to post-test (M = 9.45, SD = 2.31), Conclusion: These findings provide evidence that an 8-week CBT intervention significantly reduces psychological distress in individuals with hypertension. The results support the integration of CBT into hypertension care within Nigerian tertiary hospitals, highlighting the potential for broader implementation in similar clinical settings. Future research, involving larger and longer-term studies, is recommended to confirm the durability and generalizability of these findings.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.