101. Efficacy of Biofeedback Associated with Relaxation in Decreasing Anxiety in Women with Breast Cancer During Chemotherapy
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Saeede Masafi, Hasan Ahadi, and Omid Rezaei
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biofeedback ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Relaxation (psychology) ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Repeated measures design ,medicine.disease ,Biofeedback ,Alpha wave ,anxiety ,chemotherapy ,Breast cancer ,medicine ,Physical therapy ,Anxiety ,cancer ,General Materials Science ,Analysis of variance ,medicine.symptom ,Neurofeedback ,Psychology ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
The aim of present research is investigating the effects of biofeedback and relaxation in decreasing the anxiety during chemotherapy. It is a field study and semi-experimental (pre-test – post-test with control group). The statistical population includes the women with breast cancer who were hospitalized at Tehran Emam Khomeini Hospital. For sampling 14 subjects were divided randomly into 2 groups of experiment and control. Data were gathered through Spilberger anxiety test as pre-test – post-test. Spilberger anxiety test includes state and trait anxiety so there were 4 groups: state anxiety experiment (SAE), state anxiety control (SAC), trait anxiety experiment (TAE) and trait anxiety control (TAC) groups. Alpha brain waves were measured repeatedly by neurofeedback set in 4 phases during chemotherapy. Manipulation in experiment group was done with two kinds of biofeedback (neurofeedback and skin conductance biofeedback) associated with relaxation. Procedures of the present research were conducted during 3 periods of chemotherapy. Data analyses were done by using statistical methods such as correlated-t (T-test) for anxiety test and anova (analysis of variance for repeated measure: f-test) for Alpha brain waves. In SAE group the amount of t-observed (t=2.2, p
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