Alleviation of premenstrual syndrome symptoms with the relaxation response.

摘要: During a 5-month study, we examined the effects of relaxation response on premenstrual syndrome in 46 women who were randomly assigned to one three groups: charting group, reading and group. The group showed significantly greater improvement than groups physical symptoms (P less .025 for both comparisons). There was significant group-by-severity effect versus measured daily .01 comparisons), emotional retrospectively .001 P .025, respectively), social withdrawal respectively). Women with severe 58.0% improvement, compared 27.2% 17.0% We conclude that regular elicitation is an effective treatment symptoms, most symptoms.