Exposure to the rationale of treatment program or regimen has been found to be effective in increasing patients' compliance to medication regimens and attendance to psychotherapy. Such exposure, however, has not been tested as a means to increase compliance to a psychotherapeutic assignment. Fifty-two subjects who reported difficulty dealing with stress and anxiety were randomly assigned to one of two videotape pretraining conditions; rationale or no rationale. Following this presentation, all subjects were trained in progressive muscle relaxation by instructors blind to the manipulation. Compliance to the relaxation exercises were monitored during the subsequent week via electronic rewind counters embedded in the issued cassette players as well as by self-report and the subjects' performance of relaxation at the second session one week later. Anxiety was measured following each session using the state-section of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. / No significant effect of the rationale condition was found for any of the compliance or anxiety measures. Although the subjects' self-report of practice and objective and subjective measures of relaxation proficiency in the second session were significantly correlated, the electronic rewind counter measure was not significantly correlated with the measures. Two variables, the subject's rating of the videotape presenter's experience and the number of problems performing the relaxation exercises, accounted for 20 percent of the variance of the rewind counter measure of compliance. A discriminant analysis correctly predicted compliance (defined as five or more cassette plays) in 65 percent of the cases. Possible explanations for the lack of significant effect of the rationale exposure were offered and research and clinical applications of the findings were discussed. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-09, Section: B, page: 3081. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75421 |
| Contributors | RILEY, WILLIAM THOMAS, JR., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 69 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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