Treino cognitivo e interven？？o psicoeducativa para indivíduos hipertensos: efeitos na cogni？？o

objectives: to evaluate the possibility of combining cognitive training to an educational intervention composed by eight sessions about hypertension for a better management of the disease among the elderly. methods: 64 older adults who reported having hypertension, divided into experimental group (eg, n=35) and control group (cg, n=29) participated in the study. control participants received training after the post-test. the protocol contained socio-demographic and clinical data, mini-mental state examination (mmse), geriatric depression scale (gds), rivermead behavioral memory test (rbmt), verbal fluency animal category (vf) and short cognitive test (skt). results: the eg showed better cognitive performance when compared with the cg, at post-test. conclusion: cognitive gains may occur after psychoeducational interventions for older adults with hypertension.