A Study on Effectiveness of Relaxation Technique on Anxiety among Hypertensive Clients in Selected Community in Jaipur
Abstract
Anxiety is a common experience of human beings that their minds and bodies are closely interlinked. Any disturbance in either of them is bound to affect the other. Mental worries lead to physiological problems and bodily discomfort does impact on the mind.
The study objectives are:
1. To assess the level of anxiety among the hypertensive clients by using Beck anxiety scale.
2. To find the effect of relaxation techniques on level of anxiety among hypertensive clients.
3. To find an association between anxiety level and selected demographic variables.
The article assumes that
1. Hypertensive client have anxiety.
2. Relaxation technique (pranayama breathing) is effective techniques for reducing the level of anxiety on hypertensive clients.
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Introduction
Anxiety is a common experience of human beings that their minds and bodies are closely interlinked. Any disturbance in either of them is bound to affect the other. Mental worries lead to physiological problems and bodily discomfort does impact on the mind.
We are all familiar with the talk about suffering from tension, nervousness, or stress. The person who suffers from anxiety have no difficulty in understanding the experience. Anxiety is an extremely unpleasant feeling; it can make people feel frightened, uneasy, unhappy and sometimes desperate. The anxiety may affect the body, the thoughts and emotions and the life style of the individual. The physical symptoms associated with anxiety includes breathing difficulty, feeling faint, dry mouth, pounding heart, muscle aches and pain, excessive sweating, bowel/ urinary problems etc.
Everybody feels some degree of anxiety which is normal and useful. If we are unable to get anxious at all, it would be extremely unnatural phenomenon. We need anxiety to deal with difficult situations like exams and interview etc. Anxiety can become a problem when it rises beyond the normal limits, if it goes on for too long or if it happens too often and in inappropriate situations. This may happen to some people because of painful feelings that have been able to come to terms with1 .
Hypertension is called as “Silent Killer” because people who have it are often symptom free. It has been recognized that hypertension is a global problem with its prevalence increasing rapidly over the decades.
Conclusion
The findings of the study revealed that 53% of hypertensive clients had moderate level of anxiety. The mean post test anxiety scores of the subjects were significantly lower than the mean pre – test anxiety scores at 0.05 level of significance. So the research hypothesis was accepted. There was no significant association between level of anxiety and selected demographic variables like age, gender, religion, occupation and monthly income of family. So the research hypothesis was rejected. The findings concluded that Relaxation technique ( pranayama breathing) was effective in reducing the level of anxiety, among hypertensive clients from the selected community area.
The study was conducted with the objective of assessing the anxiety level among hypertensive clients by using Beck Anxiety Inventory and to study the effectiveness of relaxation technique (Pranayama breathing) on identified cases of anxiety among hypertensive clients.