Best Effect of Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) on Children: A Systematic Review

Casman, Nani Nurhaeni

2018

Abstract

Objectives: Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) showed good benefit in adult such as reduction stress, this systematic review to synthesis evidence on progressive muscle relaxation effect in children and investigates minimum ages to started the PMR. Methods: A literature search was conducted on ProQuest, EBSCOhost, ScienceDirect, and SpringerLink. The systematic review consisted of retrieving articles published between 2008 until 2018, using the keywords “progressive muscle relaxation” and child or pediatric or adolescent. Results: Overall more than 500 potential articles were screened, of which 10 were eligible. All of articles showed PMR is significant to reduce stress and anxiety of children, 50% articles showed the participant’s is school age and adolescent with minimum age is 4 year or older. Conclusions: progressive muscle relaxation is good technic to reduction stress in children, also increased good mood and attention of children. In closing, further evidence is needed to delineate the obstacle of doing PMR in children, by qualitative or quantitative research especially in Indonesia..

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Casman. and Nurhaeni N. (2018). Best Effect of Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) on Children: A Systematic Review.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Indonesian National Nurses Association - Volume 1: ICINNA, ISBN 978-989-758-406-0, pages 12-17. DOI: 10.5220/0008199200120017

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinna18,
author={Casman and Nani Nurhaeni},
title={Best Effect of Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) on Children: A Systematic Review},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Indonesian National Nurses Association - Volume 1: ICINNA,},
year={2018},
pages={12-17},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008199200120017},
isbn={978-989-758-406-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Indonesian National Nurses Association - Volume 1: ICINNA,
TI - Best Effect of Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) on Children: A Systematic Review
SN - 978-989-758-406-0
AU - Casman.
AU - Nurhaeni N.
PY - 2018
SP - 12
EP - 17
DO - 10.5220/0008199200120017