Quasi Experimental Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Progressive Muscle Relaxation Therapy to Reduce Anxiety among Nursing Students

Nursing is a body of knowledge. Modern nursing involves many activities, concepts and skills related to basic science, social science, growth and development and other areas of nursing. Nursing study is highly stressful and it was found that nursing students are more test anxious than the students in other fields. So to reduce anxiety there are several techniques which are recommended, and progressive muscle relaxation technique is one of the best method. A quasi experimental study was conducted on 60 nursing students to assess the effectiveness of progressive muscle relation therapy in reducing stress in selected nursing college of Ludhiana, Punjab. The result of the study shows that PMRT had an impact in reducing anxiety among experimental group (t = 16.32) as compared to control group (t = 0.47). Significant association of anxiety was found with parents education in both the groups (p<0.05). The level of anxiety reduces in experimental group after PMRT, therefore guidelines were given to the control group for PMRT to reduce their anxiety level.