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Article: Evaluating the feasibility and efficacy of a self-administered manual-based stress management intervention for individuals with asthma: results from a controlled study.(Statistical Data Included)
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- Behavioral Medicine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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For more than a decade, researchers have examined the use of stress-management interventions (1) as supplementary treatments for people with chronic and life-threatening illnesses. These interventions, proposed in an attempt to reduce or prevent further complications from diseases, (2) have included a broad range of techniques from relaxation and cognitive-skills training to diet and exercise modification.
Stress has been implicated in the precipitation and exacerbation of illness through a variety of pathways. For example, stress has been shown to affect major physiological systems--autonomic, neuroendocrine, and immune. Investigators have noted that stress may ...
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