Effectiveness of systematic muscle relaxation technique on anxiety among school students

A quasi experimental study was conducted to help the adolescents to overcome from the anxiety situations by administering them Systematic Muscle Relaxation Technique from 17th December 2014 to 31st December 2014. Sixty seven school students (thirty three in experimental and thirty four in control group) who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were selected as sample by simple random sampling technique and they were assigned randomly to experimental and control group. The data were collected by using modified SCARED tool to assess anxiety among school students. Intervention was given in the form of systematic muscle relaxation technique to experimental group for 30 minutes a week daily by a specialized yoga teacher. It was showed that the mean anxiety score in experimental group was decreased with p=0.01, whereas in control group although there is a reduction in mean anxiety score but it was not statistically significant (p=.105) which indicate that reduction in mean anxiety score was not by chance but due to the intervention given.