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PURPOSE: This study was undertaken to confirm the effects of autogenic training (AT) on stress response and heart rate variability in nursing school students experiencing stress related to clinical training. METHODS: The study was carried out from September 2012 to April 2013 in a quasi-experimental nonequivalent control group using a pretest-posttest design. The participants were 40 nursing students in their third year at either of two nursing colleges. All consented to participate. Nineteen nursing students at one college were assigned to the experimental group and underwent the 8-week AT program, and the other 21 were assigned to the control group and did not undergo any training. Stress response was assessed by questionnaire and HRV was measured three times, that is, before the program, at the end of the program, and 6 months after the end of the AT program. RESULTS: A significant time/group interaction was found for stress response (F = 4.68, p = .012), a subjective indicator. However, no significant interaction was found for the objective indicators of heart rate variability, normalized low frequency (F = 2.59, p = .090), normalized high frequency (F = 2.59, p = .090), or low frequency to high frequency ratio (F = 1.38, p = .257). CONCLUSION: The results suggest that AT provides an acceptable approach to stress reduction in nursing students.
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Humans , Adaptation, Psychological , Autogenic Training/methods , Case-Control Studies , Heart Rate/physiology , Surveys and Questionnaires , Stress, Psychological/rehabilitation , Students, Nursing/psychology , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
Biofeedback with or without combined autogenic training is known to be effective for the treatment of migraine. This study aimed to examine the effect of biofeedback treatment on headache activity, anxiety, and depression in Korean female patients with migraine headache. Patients were randomized into the treatment group (n=17) and monitoring group (n=15). Mood states including anxiety and depression, and psychophysiological variables such as mean skin temperature of the patients were compared with those of the normal controls (n=21). We found greater treatment response rate (defined as > or =50% reduction in headache index) in patients with biofeedback-assisted autogenic training than in monitoring group. The scores on the anxiety and depression scales in the patients receiving biofeedback-assisted autogenic training decreased after the biofeedback treatment. Moreover, the decrease in their anxiety levels was significantly related to the treatment outcome. This result suggests that the biofeedback-assisted autogenic training is effective for the treatment of migraine and its therapeutic effect is closely related to the improvement of the anxiety level.
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Adult , Female , Humans , Affect , Analysis of Variance , Anxiety , Autogenic Training/methods , Biofeedback, Psychology/methods , Body Temperature , Depression , Migraine Disorders/therapy , Republic of Korea , Severity of Illness IndexABSTRACT
Resumen: Se realiza un estudio descriptivo de intervención y corte transversal en el universo de los asmáticos mayores de 20 años atendidos en el consultorio médico de la familia No. 18, perteneciente al área de salud del Policlínico Docente ®Héroes de Girón¼, con el objetivo de evaluar los posibles beneficios de la aplicación de un programa para el automanejo del paciente asmático adulto en la comunidad. Con la aplicación del programa se obtuvo un incremento significativo del conocimiento de la enfermedad en la totalidad de los pacientes participantes. La evolución clínica del 100 porciento de los pacientes que siguieron todo el programa mejoró o no empeoró, a diferencia de aquéllos que no lo siguieron. El grupo que cumplió el programa íntegramente logró una disminución significativa del nivel de ansiedad, lo que se interpreta como consecuencia de su mejor preparación para comprender y manejar la enfermedad
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Humans , Adult , Asthma/psychology , Autogenic Training/methods , Physicians, Family , Primary Health CareABSTRACT
El presente trabajo surge a partir del interés generado por la evaluación obtenida sobre los rasgos de personalidad del cirujano dentista (Ramírez & Eguiarte, 1995). Los datos encontrados muestran un alto índice de estrés como efecto de una práctica sedentaria y como conductas colaterales, irritabilidad, manías, depresión, ingestión de alcohol e inadecuada relación familiar, entre otras. En este trabajo se presentan como alternativas de afrontamiento al estrés: el entrenamiento autógeno y la terapia racional emotiva, consideradas como técnicas efectivas de autoayuda y fáciles de implementar en la vida diaria. Al mismo tiempo, se considera que al ir avanzando en la reducción del estrés, disminuirán paralelamente aquellas conductas emocionales de evasión y esto, proporcionará al individuo un estilo de vida más gratificante