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Hypertension is a major health problem in developing and developed countries and its increasing prevalence is a serious warning to take more attention to this silent disease. This study aimed to survey hypertensive patient__AWT_QUOTE__s perceptions towards their diseases and its treatment. This was a systematic review and articles were searched in Iranian and international databases such as IranMedex, SID, PubMed, ISI web of knowledge, Medline, Embase, and Google Scholar with hypertension, treatment adherence, and patient__AWT_QUOTE__s perceptions keywords in period of 1980 to 2012. Inclusion criteria were being qualitative study, assessing the perceptions and experience of patients with hypertension and publishing in Persian or English languages. Studies which conducted on patients with other diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and hypertension in pregnancy were excluded. 38 articles were reviewed and results from them obtained in two themes, hypertension from patients' viewpoints and treatment adherence and reasons. Stress was considered as a cause and a consequence of the disease. Patients had negative perceptions toward treatment and knew it adverse. In some cases, existence or absence of physical symptoms encountered as a factor for decreasing or discounting the drugs. No consumption or decreasing of drugs had unintentional reasons including forgiveness, timeless and occupying, drug and physician and nutritional treatment expensiveness, and no insurance. Sometimes the patient decided deliberately to stop or reduce medication. This could be an explanation for the short-term effects or ineffective treatment and educational interventions. So, to be successful in treating and controlling the disease, attention to patients' concerns and perceptions is necessary.

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Background: The process of cancer and its treatment has effects on patients, so that the physical and mental function of the patient is reduced. In this regard, the use of therapeutic approaches to improve mental health problems caused by the disease has been identified and presented. Considering the repetition of other therapeutic strategies and the variety of psychological problems of patients with cancer, lack of use of two strategies of integrated transdiagnostic treatment and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) in the group of patients with cancer, and the impact of a person's cognitive skill on maintaining mental health, the purpose of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of integrated transdiagnostic treatment and DBT in psychological well-being and pain perception of patients with cancer.
Methods: The design of this quasi-experimental study was pre-test, post-test, and follow-up with a control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of all patients with cancer in Isfahan, Iran, in 2021. The study sample consisted of 63 patients with cancer who were selected by the available sampling method and randomly assigned to three experimental and control groups. Research data were collected using McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) and Ryff's Psychological Well-Being Scale and analyzed using repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) in SPSS software.
Findings: Integrated transdiagnostic and DBT education was effective in improving pain perception and psychological well-being of patients with cancer in the experimental group compared to the control group. Moreover, there was a significant difference between the two educational strategies (integrated transdiagnostic and DBT) in the post-test for variable of pain perception (0.58 and 0.42, respectively) and for the psychological well-being variable (0.27 and 0.17, respectively). In the follow-up phase, it was obtained as 0.58 and 0.43 for the pain perception variable and 0.30 and 0.17 for the psychological well-being variable (P < 0.01). Integrated transdiagnostic treatment has been more effective in the psychological well-being and pain perception of patients with cancer.
Conclusion: Integrated transdiagnostic treatment and DBT lead to increased psychological well-being and improved pain perception in patients, and health professionals can use this treatment method to improve the psychological performance of patients.