Abstract
Psychosocial stress is accepted as a known contributor to emotional and somatic illness. This study is a replication of pre-post clinical effectiveness of a medically supervised treatment program for stress disorders. The program is hospital-based and employs biofeedback as an introductory self-regulation, stress reduction method and flotation REST as a primary self-regulation, stress reduction method.
Eighty respondents of 154 out-patients are reviewed statistically assessing change in symptom severity and frequency and secondary symptoms.
The results are reviewed with comparison to an initial clinical outcome study on a similar out-patient group treated in the same program. The results continue to be strongly suggestive of health benefits with the use of this treatment model.
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Koula, G.M., Kemp, J.C., Keane, K.M., Belden, A.D. (1990). Replication of a Clinical Outcome Study on a Hospital-Based Stress Management and Behavioral Medicine Program Utilizing Flotation REST and Biofeedback. In: Suedfeld, P., Turner, J.W., Fine, T.H. (eds) Restricted Environmental Stimulation. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9701-4_17
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