Changes in anxiety, drug abuse, cigarette smoking, and alcohol consumption were examined in people practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique. In one study, employing Campbell and Stanley's Recurrent Institutional Cycle Design, the !PAT Anxiety Scale Questionnaire was administered to members of an experimental group (N = 11) shortly before and again four weeks after they received instru...

Pain and anxiety are well-documented problems during the rehabilitation of patients with burns. This study examined the effect of music on anxiety and pain during range of motion. Eleven subjects with partial-thickness or deeper burns were randomly assigned to a control group (without music intervention) or experimental group (with music intervention). Vital signs, pain, and anxiety were record...

The humans’ organs function will be decreased when humans are getting older. It caused they to had insomnia. Insomnia is a condition of sleeping problem. Jasmine oil aromatherapy an essential which used decrease research aimed at knowing or prove that jasmine can reduce the degree insomnia in elderly. method was quasy experimental one group pretest-posttest design. subject 34 elderlies who were...

CONTEXT Instruction can be used to alter the biomechanical movement patterns associated with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries. OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of instruction through combination (self and expert) feedback or self-feedback on lower extremity kinematics during the box-drop-jump task, running-stop-jump task, and sidestep-cutting maneuver over time in college-aged fema...

Over half of the undergraduate students entering physiology hold a misconception concerning how breathing pattern changes when minute ventilation increases. Repair of this misconception was used as a measure to compare the impact of three student laboratory protocols on learning by 696 undergraduate students at 5 institutions. Students were tested for the presence of the misconception before an...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present investigation was to examine the effect of sex on maximal voluntary isometric contraction (MVIC) torque and the EMG and MMG responses as a result of fatiguing, intermittent, submaximal (65% of MVIC), isometric elbow flexion muscle contractions. METHODS Eighteen men and women performed MVIC trials before (pretest), after (posttest), and 5-min after (5-min r...