@article{ref1,
title="Disaster relief for the Japanese earthquake-tsunami of 2011: stress reduction through the Transcendental Meditation® technique",
journal="Psychological reports",
year="2015",
author="Yoshimura, Mitsunobu and Kurokawa, Etsuko and Noda, Takayuki and Hineno, Koji and Tanaka, Yasuo and Kawai, Yuji and Dillbeck, Michael C.",
volume="117",
number="1",
pages="206-216",
abstract="-This study examined changes in self-reported stress symptoms after instruction in the Transcendental Meditation(®) technique among 171 residents of two cities (Sendai and Ishinomaki) directly affected by the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami disaster compared with 326 non-disaster Tokyo participants previously tested before and after learning the technique and a no-treatment control group (n = 68). The participants completed a rating checklist of mental and physical symptoms. Disaster area participants who learned the Transcendental Meditation(®) technique in contrast to controls showed a significant drop in total symptom score from pre-test to post-test (effect size = -1.09). <br><br>RESULTS were comparable for an ordinal measure of symptom intensity. The findings suggest the potential value of this procedure for relief from disaster trauma.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0033-2941",
doi="10.2466/02.13.PR0.117c11z6",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/02.13.PR0.117c11z6"
}