THE EFFECTS OF TWELVE WEEKS OF TAI CHI PRACTICE ON ANXIETY IN STRESSED BUT HEALTHY PEOPLE COMPARED TO EXERCISE AND WAIT-LIST GROUPS:A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL
THE EFFECTS OF TWELVE WEEKS OF TAI CHI PRACTICE ON ANXIETY IN STRESSED BUT HEALTHY PEOPLE COMPARED TO EXERCISE AND WAIT-LIST GROUPS:A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL出 版 物：《Journal of Integrative Medicine》 (结合医学学报(英文))
年 卷 期：2014年第3期
页 面：297-298页
学科分类：1006[医学-中西医结合] 1005[医学-中医学] 10[医学]
摘 要：Introduction: The ancient Chinese mind-body exercise of Tai Chi(TC) is practiced worldwide by millions of people *** has been a growing interest in the scientific community to evaluate the efficacy of TC practice for a range of diseases and ***: Forty-nine participants were randomly allocated into one of three groups: TC(n=17), exercise(n=16) or a wait-list control group(WL)(n=16).Both TC and exercise groups were required to complete 5 h per week of either TC or exercise for 12 weeks(total of 3600 min), whilst WL maintained their normal *** Trait Anxiety Inventory(STAI) which assesses both state anxiety(Y-1) and trait anxiety(Y-2) was used as the primary outcome *** outcome measures werethe Perceived Stress Scale 14(PSS14), blood pressure, heart rate variability, visual analogue scale and short-form *** were collected at baseline, midway at week 6 and at the completion of the trial at week 12.A two-way ANOVA with repeated measures followed by Bonferroni s post-hoc test was used for statistical ***: For the Y-1 outcome measure both TC and exercise groups showed significant improvements from baseline to week 12(P0.01).Significant improvements from baseline were also seen for both TC and exercise groups at weeks 6 and 12 in both the Y-2(P0.01) and PSS14(P0.01) outcome *** analysis detected statistical significance between TC and WL at week 12 for both Y-1(P0.01) and Y-2(P0.01) outcome measures but not for PSS14 ***: The findings from this clinical study revealed that TC effectively reduces stress levels in healthy individuals as early as week 6 and may provide a gentler therapeutic alternative to strenuous exercise.
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