Stress Reduction to Decrease Hypertension for Black Women: A Scoping Review of Trials and Interventions.
Stress Reduction to Decrease Hypertension for Black Women: A Scoping Review of Trials and Interventions.
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减轻黑人女性的压力以降低高血压:试验和干预措施的范围审查。
DOI:
10.1007/s40615-021-01160-y
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Hines,AnikaL
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作者:
Collins,SarahV;Hines,AnikaL
IntroductionChronic stress is a potential root cause of racial/ethnic disparities in cardiovascular disease. This review assesses literature surrounding effective stressreduction interventions to reduce hypertension (HTN)—a cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor—among an understudied population, non-Hispanic black (NHB) women.MethodsWe conducted an electronic search of PubMed and PsycINFO literature published between January 1, 2000 and February 1, 2020, employing the keywords: “blood pressure”, “hypertension”, and “women”, “black”, “African-American”, “stress”, “meditation”, “stress-coping”, “stress-management”, and “faith-based”. We manually searched the bibliographies for additional articles. Studies were excluded if they: were published before 2000; were not intervention-based; did not study Black women in the US; did not target stress reduction; or did not measure blood pressure as an outcome. Independent reviewers screened the articles, which were selected based on consensus. Effect sizes and statisticalpvalues were reported as provided in the included articles.ResultsWe identified 109 articles in total. Of those, six articles met inclusion criteria. Stronger evidence presented by a randomized control trial supported the efficacy of transcendental meditation with reductions in systolic and diastolic blood pressure up to 7 mmHg. Relaxation exercises, support groups, and therapeutic massage emerged as potentially beneficial in non-randomized pilot trials with reductions in systolic BP up to 9 mmHg and diastolic BP up to 5 mmHg varying by type and duration of the intervention.ConclusionsThis scoping review found that faith-based strategies and meditation can be effective stress reduction techniques to reduce BP among NHB women. However, much remains to be known about how these strategies may be leveraged to reduce blood pressure within this highly vulnerable population.