Lakshmi Priya Ravi Nedumpillil, M. Malarvizhi, G. Neelakshi, Sri Ramachandra College of Nursing Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.
DOI : 01.0401/ijaict.2014.02.19
International Journal of Advanced Information and Communication Technology
Received On : February 12, 2015
Revised On : March 23, 2015
Accepted On : April 13, 2015
Published On : May 05, 2015
Volume 02, Issue 05
Pages : 271-273
Abstract
Alcoholism and its related problems occupy majority of hospital admissions in India as psychiatric emergencies, all brain injuries and for deaddiction. Majority of patients who undergo deaddiction will return back to hospital with relapse within six months duration. Anxiety is one of the leading causes of relapse. This study thus aims at reducing anxiety among patients with alcohol dependence syndrome through holotropic breathwork thereby reducing the incidence of relapse. Pre experimental one group pretest posttest was adopted for the study with a sample size of 30. The study was conducted at A. J. Doss deaddiction centre, Valsaravakkam. This study discloses that holotopic breathwork is effective in reducing anxiety among patients with alcohol dependence syndrome.
Keywords
Alcoholism, Breathwork, Brain injuries.
Cite this article
Lakshmi Priya Ravi Nedumpillil, M. Malarvizhi, G. Neelakshi, “Effectiveness of Holotropic Breathwork on Anxiety among Patients with Alcohol Dependence Syndrome Admitted at Selected Deaddiction cum Rehabilitation Centre” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, pp.271-273, May 05, 2015.
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© 2015 Lakshmi Priya Ravi Nedumpillil, M. Malarvizhi, G. Neelakshi. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.