Differences in relaxation by means of guided imagery in a healthy community sample

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 60-66

  Watanabe, Eri ^a   Fukuda, Sanae ^a   Hara, Hisako ^b   Maeda, Yuko ^a   Ohira, Hideki ^c   Shirakawa, Taro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Hara Academy   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; FEMALE; GUIDED IMAGERY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELAXATION TRAINING; SAMPLING; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; RELAXATION; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33644896023     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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