John D Agee

Comparing brief stress management courses in a community sample: mindfulness skills and progressive muscle relaxation.

Explore 2009 John D Agee, Sharon Danoff-Burg, Christoffer A. Grant

This study sought to compare a five-week mindfulness meditation (MM) course to a five-week course that taught progressive muscle relaxation (PMR). Forty-three adults from the community were randomly assigned to either MM (n = 19) or PMR (n = 24) courses after responding to flyers and other advertisements for a free stress management course. Mindfulness meditation participants practiced...