The Effect of Progressive Muscle Relaxation on Emotional Competence: Depression –Anxiety–Stress, Sense of Coherence, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Well-Being of Unemployed People in Greece: An Intervention Study

Objectives: Assessment of the impact of Jacobson Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) on depression –anxiety–stress symptoms, sense of coherence, health-related quality of life and well-being in long-term unemployed people with anxiety disorders.Design and setting: An intervention study was conducted at a relevant Organization, in Athens, Greece.Intervention: 50 long-term unemployed individual s suffering from anxiety disorders participated in the study. Participants were separated into two groups: (a) the intervention group (30 individuals) that was trained on an 8-week on Progressive Muscle Relaxation program and also received counseling services and (b) the control group (20 individual s) that received only counseling services.

Source: Explore - August 20, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Kyriakoula Merakou, Konstantinos Tsoukas, Georgios Stavrinos, Eirini Amanaki, Antonia Daleziou, Ntina Kourmousi, Georgia Stamatelopoulou, Evi Spourdalaki, Anastasia Barbouni Tags: Research Letter Source Type: research