Effect of laughter yoga on mood and heart rate variability in patients awaiting organ transplantation: A pilot study

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 61-66

  Dolgoff Kaspar, Rima ^a,b   Baldwin, Ann ^c   Scott Johnson, M ^d   Edling, Nancy ^b   Sethi, Gulshan K ^b  

^a Sierra Tucson   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d Breathworks Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; YOGA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFFECT; AGED; ANXIETY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOGA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866778974     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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