Tension tamer: Delivering meditation with objective heart rate acquisition for adherence monitoring using a smart phone platform

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-19

  Gregoski, Mathew J ^a,b   Vertegel, Alexey ^c   Shaporev, Aleksey ^c   Treiber, Frank A ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREATHING AWARENESS MEDITATION; BREATHING RATE; FOLLOW UP; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDITATION; MOBILE PHONE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SMARTPHONE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CELLULAR PHONE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREHYPERTENSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESPIRATION; SOUTH CAROLINA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84872469391     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: 15577708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2011.0772     Document Type: Article

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