Effects of Progressive Relaxation on Sleep Disturbance: An Electroencephalographic Evaluation
- 1 May 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Psychosomatic Medicine
- Vol. 38 (3) , 173-180
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00006842-197605000-00003
Abstract
Human subjects with reported sleep-onset disturbance were given progressive relaxation training, placebo or no-treatment. All 3 conditions showed signficant improvement in daily reported sleep onset over the duration of the study. Between-condition effects were limited to relaxation superiority over no-treatment on Stage I sleep, and over placebo on post-questionnaire items and sleep-latency reports at 1-yr follow-up.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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