Quality Toolbox: Self-Monitoring of a Stress Reduction Technique Using Wrist-Worn Counters
- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal for Healthcare Quality
- Vol. 29 (1), 45-52
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-1474.2007.tb00175.x
Abstract
In a study of 59 veterans and healthcare workers, the reliability of a self-monitoring method used to track the frequency of a spiritually oriented stress reduction technique was assessed. During a 5-week program of silently repeating a mantram (a spiritual word or phrase) to lower stress and anger and improve spiritual well-being, portable wrist-worn counters were used to track daily mantram practice sessions. All outcomes significantly improved in the hypothesized direction. Mantram practice tracked by the counters was highly correlated (r = .84) with retrospective self-reports, indicating that such counters may be a reliable self-monitoring tool and could be used to measure a variety of other behavioral health quality indicators.Keywords
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