Autogenic training to manage symptomology in women with chest pain and normal coronary arteries.

Objectives: To explore autogenic training (AT) as a treatment for psychological morbidity, symptomology, and physiological markers of stress among women with chest pain, a positive exercise test for myocardial ischemia, and normal coronary arteries (cardiac syndrome X).

Design: Fifty-three women with cardiac syndrome X (mean +/- SD age, 57.1 +/- 8 years) were randomized to an 8-week AT program or symptom diary control.

Autogenic training to reduce anxiety in nursing students: randomized controlled trial.

Aim: This paper reports a study to determine the effectiveness of autogenic training in reducing anxiety in nursing students.

Background: Nursing is stressful, and nursing students also have the additional pressures and uncertainties shared with all academic students. Autogenic training is a relaxation technique consisting of six mental exercises and is aimed at relieving tension, anger and stress.