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Research shows Massage reduces anxiety levels
Twenty-one elderly residents participated in a study to measure the effects
of back massage on anxiety levels. Subjects were randomly assigned to three
groups: back massage with normal conversation, conversation only, and no
intervention.
Anxiety was measured prior to massage, immediately following and 10 minutes
later on four consecutive evenings. With the exception of mean diastolic blood
pressure, which showed no change from pre-test to post test and heart rate,
which increased from post-test to delayed time interval, there was a
decrease in mean scores on all variables in the back massage group from pre-test
to post-test and from post-test to delayed time interval.
There was a statistically significant difference in the mean anxiety score
between the back massage group and the no intervention group.
Fraser J, Kerr JR.; Journal of Advanced Nursing.
18(2):238-45, 1993 February.
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