The Effectiveness of Relaxation Training on Anxiety of Disordered Children's Mothers

This study was carried out in order to determine the effectiveness of relaxation exercises on the anxiety of mothers who have mentally retarded children. The method of this research was semi-experimental and effect study. For this purpose, 64 mothers, 32 of them were healthy children's mothers as a control group, and 32 of them were disordered children's mothers, who had at least one disordered child, example; mentally retarded, autistic, or CP, in rehabilitation centers, as an experimental group, were selected. Relaxation exercises were administrated on experimental group for two months, as every other day. The Beck Anxiety Inventory was administrated on two groups. Obtained data were analyzed by One Way Co-variation Analysis method. Results indicated that after emitting the effect of pre-test to post-test of groups, the difference of anxiety between two groups were meaningful. These results indicated that relaxation exercises were reduced the anxiety of disordered children's mothers.