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Heart surgery is a stressful life event. Progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) can be implementing in nursing practice as an effective, complimentary therapy. Present study was undertaken with the objective of assessing the effect of PMR on anxiety level of valvular heart surgery patients. A randomized controlled trial was done and 65 adult patients...
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... 34.3% of subjects in the experimental group had aortic valve disease compared to 33.3% in the control group. Both the groups were comparable in terms of baseline anxiety with mean score of 20.23+2.73 in the experimental and 19.53+2.33 in the control group with p value of 0.291 (Table 3). ...