NDLI: Teaching to Relax: Development of a Program to Potentiate Stress—Results of a Feasibility Study with Medical Undergraduate Students

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Author	Scholz, Michael Neumann, Carolin Wild, Katharina Garreis, Fabian Hammer, Christian M. Ropohl, Axel Paulsen, Friedrich Burger, Pascal H. M.
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Medical students are a population at risk for the development of stress-related risk states (e.g. burnout) and manifest mental disorders (e.g. depression). Still the learning of coping mechanisms against stress is not an integral part of the medical curriculum. In a pilot study we developed an elective course for learning relaxation techniques (Relacs) which was geared to the clinical practice of autogenic training (AT) with psychiatric patients. The course focussed on an innovative and mostly communicative transfer of knowledge about AT, progressive muscle relaxation and medical hypnosis and stressed the principle of repeated and supervised exercises in small student groups alongside self-administered exercise. 42 students took part in this course and showed a very high acceptance for the topic and positive evaluation. Moreover, we found a distinct improvement of the participants’ mental parameters (burnout, anxiety) and a good knowledge about the course’s contents within the final exams at the end of the semester. The structure and realisation of the course is easily adaptable and very effective regarding the improvement of the students’ mental health. Due to our results and the commonly known prevalence of stress-related disorders in medical students we postulate the integration of courses on relaxation strategies in the medical curriculum.
Starting Page	275
Ending Page	281
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10900586
Journal	Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
Volume Number	41
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15733270
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2016-01-22
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Burnout Medical education Autogenic training Progressive muscle relaxation Medical hypnosis Psychology Health Psychology Public Health Psychotherapy and Counseling
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Applied Psychology

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