Assessing the efficacy of a structured stress management program in reducing stress and climacteric symptoms in peri- and postmenopausal women
| Autor: | Eleni Armeni, Konstantinos Panoulis, Areti Augoulea, Ioannis Zervas, Irene Lambrinoudaki, Anastasia Soureti, Andreas Alexandrou, Anastasia Palaiologou, Georgios Chroussos, Foteini Christidi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Stress management
medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Progressive muscle relaxation Climacteric 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine DASS business.industry Obstetrics and Gynecology medicine.disease Menopause Postmenopause Psychiatry and Mental health Mood Physical therapy Anxiety Female Analysis of variance medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Archives of women's mental health. 24(5) |
| ISSN: | 1435-1102 |
| Popis: | To evaluate the effectiveness of a structured education program on lifestyle habits, which is also incorporating teaching on deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, and guided visualization, in the control of various components of the climacteric symptomatology in peri- and postmenopausal women. Sixty-one women aged 40–65 years with varying climacteric and stress symptoms were included in this study. Women were randomly assigned to the intervention group (31) or the control group (30). The intervention group followed an 8-week stress management program. The following parameters were assessed at baseline and at the end of the 8-week follow-up period in both groups: climacteric symptoms (Green Climacteric Scale (GCS)), sleep quality (Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)), mood status (Depression-Anxiety-Stress Scale), self-esteem (Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale), and health-related control (health locus of control (HLC)). A mixed-model ANOVA showed significant time × group × GCS interaction (within subjects: F = 23.830, p value |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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