| Abstrakt: |
The impact of learning one relaxation technique, RGI, was assessed as it affected six stress-related variables: anxiety, depression, physical complaints, pulse, blood pressure, and perceived level of tension. Inpatient cancer nurses and home care nurses were randomly assigned to a training group (n= 12) and a waiting list control group (n= 11). Only depression showed a significant improvement in the experimental group. A number of questions were raised regarding the changes observed, the lack of significance found, and the differences noted between and within groups. The most intriguing observation was that poor copers (using Weisman's heirarchy of coping behaviors) showed the greatest improvement. |
