In this study, by conceiving the degree of effect of foot reflexzone massage on depression and anxiety of middle-aged woman, I would like to suggest the foot reflexzone massage as the basic data for one of the relaxation methods of the health care pla...
In this study, by conceiving the degree of effect of foot reflexzone massage on depression and anxiety of middle-aged woman, I would like to suggest the foot reflexzone massage as the basic data for one of the relaxation methods of the health care plans.
The subjects are the middle-aged women who visit the special foot health care center 2 or 3 times a week in Il-San, Boon-dong, Seoul and 200 of them from August 2th to September 30th 2000.
The findings of this tudy were as follows:
1) The degree of the depression and anxiety of the middle-aged women according to the general characteristics was shown that there was satistically no meaningful difference, but the degree of the anxiety according to the age was shown to be meaningful statistically.
2) In the degree of the depression of the middle-aged women according to the frequency of the foot reflex zone massage, there was statistically meaningful difference(p<.005).
The degree of the anxiety of the middle-aged women according to the frequency of the foot reflex zone massage showed that there was no statistically meaningful difference(p>.060).
4) Physical and mental symptoms of the self-conscious symptoms felt after the foot massage were meaningfully decreased.