Voluntary management breathing and stress reduction in 55 to 65 year old persons. Pilot study

This study evaluated the differential efficacy of the voluntary management breathing therapy, in decreasing anxiety and stress in a population with ages between 55 and 65 years. 54 subjects were randomly assigned to a treatment group, an information group and a no-intervention group. An experimental design with repeated measures for evaluation was used (pre-treatment and post-treatment). After 3 weeks, the experimental group presented a lower stress symptomatology. The intragroup variability and the short number of sessions could explain that significant intergrupal differences were not found.