Barvinisha Begum, R (2012) Effectiveness of progressive Muscle Relaxation Therapy on reduction of Stress and Anxiety among patients undergoing Abdominal Surgery. Masters thesis, Madha College of Nursing, Chennai.
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Abstract
Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. Modern life is full of hassles, deadlines, frustrations and demands. For many people, stress and anxiety is so common place that it has become a way of life. Stress is not always bad. In small doses, it can help the person perform under pressure and motivate to do best. So Jacobson developed over 200 exercises and techniques which taken together relax the entire body by releasing muscular tension. A study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of progressive muscle relaxation therapy on reduction of stress and anxiety among patients undergoing abdominal surgery in Dr. Kamakshi Memorial Hospital at Pallikaranai, Chennai. The hypothesis formulated was that there is no significant relationship between progressive muscle relaxation therapy on reduction of stress and anxiety among patients undergoing abdominal surgery. The review of literature included the related studies which provide a strong foundation for the study including the basis for conceptual framework and formation of tool. The research design used in this study was pre experimental one group pre intervention post intervention design. It was carried out with 30 samples who fulfilled the inclusive criteria. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the samples. An interview schedule was conducted to the patients to assess the pre intervention level of knowledge. A standardized tool was given to the patients for duration of 20 to 30 minutes. The post intervention was conducted after 5th post operative day by using the same tool. The analysis revealed that the pre intervention stress mean score was 28.80 with the standard deviation of 0.19 and the post intervention stress mean score was 19.30.The pre intervention anxiety mean score was 30.90 with the standard deviation of 2.52 and the post intervention anxiety mean score was 16.00.The paired‘t’ value was 16.30 and 14.34 which showed highly significant at p< 0.001 level. The analysis revealed that there was an increase in post intervention level of knowledge. Thus it indicates the effectiveness of progressive muscle relaxation therapy on reduction of stress and anxiety among patients undergoing abdominal surgery. So the null hypothesis was rejected and researcher hypothesis was accepted for this study.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Progressive Muscle Relaxation Therapy ; Stress ; Anxiety ; Patients ; Abdominal Surgery. |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Medical Surgical Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Ramakrishnan J |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Sep 2017 11:14 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2018 06:51 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/3411 |
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