Our researchers’ clinical findings provide support for, and a deeper understanding of, mind body medicine.
Clinical Findings
Benson-Henry Institute clinical findings include:
- A relaxation response (RR)-based curriculum was effective in reducing levels of perceived stress and anxiety, as well as increasing health-promoting behaviors in high school students.
Journal of Adolescence, 2012 - Tai Chi was found to bring about positive treatment outcomes and to reduce remission rates in Chinese Americans diagnosed with major depressive disorder.
American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 2012 - Relaxation response therapy improved emotional well being and eased anxiety in men undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.
Cancer, 2010 - A 12-session outpatient program found that significant post-treatment improvements were seen on a range of 12 chronic medical symptoms, including: headache, visual disturbance, dizziness, nausea, constipation, diarrhea, abdominal pain, backache, chest pain, palpitations, insomnia, and fatigue.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2010 - Significantly more participants in an 8-week relaxation response group eliminated an antihypertensive medication while maintaining adequate blood pressure control, as compared to a lifestyle modification control group.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2010 - The findings demonstrated that relaxation training produces greater reductions in central nervous system activity than a credible comparison condition.
Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 2004 - Students reported significantly lower levels of perceived stress and anxiety and increased stress management behaviors, compared to a wait list control group.
Annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, 2009 - Depression was negatively correlated with stress management behaviors, spiritual growth, and interpersonal relationships in participants of a mind-body infertility program.
Annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, 2009 - Chronic pain patients reduce their physician visits by 36%.
The Clinical Journal of Pain, Volume 2, pages 305-310, 1991 - There is approximately a 50% reduction in visits to a HMO after a relaxation-response based intervention which resulted in estimated significant cost savings.
Behavioral Medicine, Volume 16, pages 165-173, 1990 - Eighty percent of hypertensive patients have lowered blood pressure and decreased medications - 16% are able to discontinue all of their medications. These results lasted at least three years.
Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, Volume 9, pages 316-324, 1989 - Open heart surgery patients have fewer post-operative complications.
Behavioral Medicine, Volume 5, pages 111-117, 1989 - One-hundred percent of insomnia patients reported improved sleep and 91% either eliminated or reduced sleeping medication use.
The American Journal of Medicine, Volume 100, pages 212-216, 1996 - Infertile women have a 42% conception rate, a 38% take-home baby rate, and decreased levels of depression, anxiety, and anger.
Journal of American Medical Women's Association. Volume 54, pages 196-8, 1999 - Women with severe PMS have a 57% reduction in physical and psychological symptoms.
Obstetrics and Gynecology, Volume 75, pages 649-655, April, 1990 - High school students exposed to a relaxation response-based curriculum had significantly increased their self-esteem.
The Journal of Research and Development in Education, Volume 27, pages 226-231, 1994 - Inner city middle school students improved grade score, work habits and cooperation and decreased absences.
Journal of Research and Development in Education, Volume 33, pages 156-165, Spring 2000
