여고생들의 스트레스 완화를 위한 두개선골요법의 효과

Abstract

In this study, Craniosacral therapy(CST) was practiced for 40 minutes once a week during 6 weeks to relieve the stress of high school girls as an alternative medical treatment. The research is similarity-test design which is nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design, and it was designed to explore the effectiveness of Craniosacral therapy through checking the degree of stress relieved, physiological and psychological changes after the therapy. The subjects for this study consisted of 350 students of a girls' high school located in Kwang-Ju city, which are in first grade and 10 different classes. They were tested with questionnaire from April 20, 2005 to April 30, 2005. The measurement for the stress level in the questionnaire made for this study was adopted with methods described by Son Young-Mi (2001) and Cho Sung-Man (2001), and the measurement for the psychological symptoms was supplemented by Kim Jung-Sun(2001)’s method with a little modification. Among the students who filled the questionnaire, 50 students were selected. 25 of them became a control group, and the rest of them were for the subject group. However, two students of the 25 in the control group abandoned the test by the personal reasons, so 23 students were left to be the final control group. The subjects were treated Craniosacral therapy by once per week for 6 weeks, from June 10, 2005 to August 30, 2005. In order to evaluate the biological changes after Craniosacral therapy treatment, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, pulse rate, respiration rate, Craniosacral rhythm rate, and the concentration of the stress hormone, cortisol, were measured from the both subjects and control group. To estimate the changes on the stress level, they were asked to fill the questionnaire again after total 6 times of Craniosacral therapy. The frequency, percentage, paired t-test, X^(2)-test were analyzed using a SPSS windows (Version 10.1) program. The results are as follows: 1) The stress level occurred by the school life, home surroundings, peer relationship, students themselves, environments, and psychological symptoms of subject groups decreased after Craniosacral therapy compare to control group. 2) The mean score of systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and respiration rate decreased of subject group after Craniosacral therapy compare to control. 3) The concentration of the stress hormone, cortisol, was significantly decreased after Craniosacral therapy. This study indicates that CST helped to relieve the physical, psychological and emotional stress of the high school girls; so CST can be used as an alternative medical treatment for those of the stress.