Budzynski(1970): Behavioual Treatment To Improve Stress

Question 1

What’s the method?

Answer 1

Experimental

Patients trained in a lab

Question 2

How many pps?

Answer 2

18

Question 3

How were pps gathered?

Answer 3

Replied to a ad in a local paper

Question 4

Where were the pps from?

Answer 4

Colorado

Question 5

What’s the design?

Answer 5

Independent design

Pps randomly allocated to 3 groups

Question 6

What’s the procedure ?

Answer 6

• 2 weeks - pps kept a record of their headaches
• grounds a and b given 16 sessions of training - 2 sessions a week for 8 weeks
• group a taught relaxation and told clicks of biofeedback machine would reflect their muscle tension
• group b told to concentrate on varying clicks and given pseudo feedback
• group c given no training, told would begin training in 2 months

Question 7

What were group a told?

Answer 7

group a taught relaxation and told clicks of biofeedback machine would reflect their muscle tension

Question 8

What were group b told

Answer 8

-group b told to concentrate on varying clicks and given pseudo feedback

Question 9

What were the results?

Answer 9

Muscle tension of group a significantly different from group b by the end of the training
After 3 months - group as tension lowere than group b

Group a lover headaches than baseline - others didn’t

Drug usage in group a decreased more in b

A reported less headache activity than group b

Question 10

What was concluded ?

Answer 10

Biofeedback is an effective way of training patients to replax and reduce their tension headaches so can be seen as an effective method of stress management

Relaxation training more effective than just being monitored , but is better when used together with biofeedback

Question 11

What’s the aim?

Answer 11

To see whether biofeedback is an effective method of reducing tension headaches