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Predicting differential response to EMG biofeedback and relaxation training: The role of cognitive structure
Author(s) -
Hart James D.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198403)40:2<453::aid-jclp2270400211>3.0.co;2-6
Subject(s) - biofeedback , relaxation (psychology) , psychology , cognition , migraine , physical medicine and rehabilitation , physical therapy , task (project management) , muscle relaxation , audiology , medicine , anesthesia , neuroscience , psychiatry , management , economics
Analyzed treatment outcome data for 102 headache patients who had been assigned randomly to receive either EMG biofeedback ( N = 70) or relaxation training ( N = 32). It was hypothesized that a measure of cognitive structure would differentially predict success at the two training tasks and that patients high in cognitive structure would derive more benefit from the more structured relaxation task and less benefit from the biofeedback task. This hypothesis was confirmed ( p <0.01). The analysis also demonstrated that relaxation training was significantly more effective than biofeedback ( p <0.05) and that mixed headache patients improved significantly less ( p <0.05) than either migraine or muscle‐contraction headache patients.