Pregnant women with bronchial asthma benefit from progressive muscle relaxation: A randomized, prospective, controlled trial

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 237-243

  Nickel, Cerstin ^a   Lahmann, Claas ^b   Muehlbacher, Moritz ^d   Gil, Francisco Pedrosa ^c   Kaplan, Patrick ^d   Buschmann, Wiebke ^d   Tritt, Karin ^b   Kettler, Christian ^a   Bachler, Egon ^a   Egger, Christian ^d   Anvar, Javaid ^d   Fartacek, Rainhold ^d   Loew, Thomas ^b   Rother, Wolfhardt ^a   Nickel, Marius ^a,b,d,e  

^a Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^e Inntalklinik ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Anger health related quality of life; Asthma; Heart rate; Lung parameters; Pregnancy; Progressive muscle relaxation

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE RELAXATION; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MUSCLE RELAXATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SPIROMETER; STATE TRAIT ANGER EXPRESSION INVENTORY AND HEALTH SURVEY; STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; ASTHMA; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MUSCLE RELAXATION; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 33745293239     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000092894     Document Type: Article

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