Disaster Relief for the Japanese Earthquake–Tsunami of 2011: Stress Reduction through the Transcendental Meditation® Technique
| Autor: | Mitsunobu Yoshimura, Yuji Kawai, Etsuko Kurokawa, Yasuo Tanaka, Takayuki Noda, Michael C. Dillbeck, Koji Hineno |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Adult
Male Poison control Transcendental meditation Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Disasters Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic Disaster area Japan Injury prevention Earthquakes medicine Humans General Psychology Emergency management business.industry medicine.disease Checklist Meditation Treatment Outcome Tsunamis Female Medical emergency Psychology business Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychological Reports. 117:206-216 |
| ISSN: | 1558-691X 0033-2941 |
| DOI: | 10.2466/02.13.pr0.117c11z6 |
| Popis: | This study examined changes in self-reported stress symptoms after instruction in the Transcendental Meditation® technique among 171 residents of two cities (Sendai and Ishinomaki) directly affected by the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami disaster compared with 326 non-disaster Tokyo participants previously tested before and after learning the technique and a no-treatment control group ( n = 68). The participants completed a rating checklist of mental and physical symptoms. Disaster area participants who learned the Transcendental Meditation® technique in contrast to controls showed a significant drop in total symptom score from pre-test to post-test (effect size = −1.09). Results were comparable for an ordinal measure of symptom intensity. The findings suggest the potential value of this procedure for relief from disaster trauma. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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