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The Effects of Anxiety on Balance Parameters in Young Female University Students
OBJECTIVE: In human beings, the balance control is a result of an integration of physical and psychological factors and people show different reactions when feel anxious or face stability threatened conditions such as standing on an unstable surface. University students, particularly the female ones...
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3570576/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23408745 |
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author | Rahimi, Abbas Abadi, Zahra Ebrahim |
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description | OBJECTIVE: In human beings, the balance control is a result of an integration of physical and psychological factors and people show different reactions when feel anxious or face stability threatened conditions such as standing on an unstable surface. University students, particularly the female ones, are a group of the society who are prone to face anxieties. The current study focused on the effects of anxiety on balance index in young female university students. METHODS: A group of 15 female students with a high anxiety score (higher than 42 in Shpielberger Questionnaire) and a group of 15 female students with a low anxiety score (lower than 42 in Shpielberger Questionnaire) were recruited for this study. Using a Biodex stabilometer (Biodex System, USA), the antero-posterior (AP), medio-latral (ML) and the overall dynamic stability index (SI) of the subjects were recorded and compared. RESULTS: The results revealed a significant difference between the two groups. Subjects with a high anxiety score showed a stability index higher than those in the low anxiety group (p<0.005), which simply indicate significantly less stability in this group. CONCLUSION: This study showed that subjects with higher anxiety scores were less stable compared to those subjects with lower anxiety scores. |
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spelling | pubmed-35705762013-02-13 The Effects of Anxiety on Balance Parameters in Young Female University Students Rahimi, Abbas Abadi, Zahra Ebrahim Iran J Psychiatry Original Article OBJECTIVE: In human beings, the balance control is a result of an integration of physical and psychological factors and people show different reactions when feel anxious or face stability threatened conditions such as standing on an unstable surface. University students, particularly the female ones, are a group of the society who are prone to face anxieties. The current study focused on the effects of anxiety on balance index in young female university students. METHODS: A group of 15 female students with a high anxiety score (higher than 42 in Shpielberger Questionnaire) and a group of 15 female students with a low anxiety score (lower than 42 in Shpielberger Questionnaire) were recruited for this study. Using a Biodex stabilometer (Biodex System, USA), the antero-posterior (AP), medio-latral (ML) and the overall dynamic stability index (SI) of the subjects were recorded and compared. RESULTS: The results revealed a significant difference between the two groups. Subjects with a high anxiety score showed a stability index higher than those in the low anxiety group (p<0.005), which simply indicate significantly less stability in this group. CONCLUSION: This study showed that subjects with higher anxiety scores were less stable compared to those subjects with lower anxiety scores. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3570576/ /pubmed/23408745 Text en © 2012 Psychiatry and Psychology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Rahimi, Abbas Abadi, Zahra Ebrahim The Effects of Anxiety on Balance Parameters in Young Female University Students |
title | The Effects of Anxiety on Balance Parameters in Young Female University Students |
title_full | The Effects of Anxiety on Balance Parameters in Young Female University Students |
title_fullStr | The Effects of Anxiety on Balance Parameters in Young Female University Students |
title_full_unstemmed | The Effects of Anxiety on Balance Parameters in Young Female University Students |
title_short | The Effects of Anxiety on Balance Parameters in Young Female University Students |
title_sort | effects of anxiety on balance parameters in young female university students |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3570576/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23408745 |
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