This current academic undertaking investigated the efficacy of the muscle relaxation therapy to thyroid cancer patients who underwent thyroid surgery in terms of their anxiety, symptoms of depression, sleep and quality of life. Specifically, it described the profile of the respondents in terms of their sex, mean age, and type of patients in the experiment; determined the respondents anxiety, symptoms of depression, sleep quality and quality of life before and after their thyroid surgery; tested differences of the variables when grouped according to their profile variables; established possible correaltion among the four variables; determined the efficacy of the muscle relaxation therapy on respondents’ anxiety, symptoms of depression, sleep quality and quality of life; and proposed the efficacy of the muscle relaxation therapy in preventing anxiety and symptoms of depression as well as in improving thyroid cancer patients sleep quality and quality of life.

Teng Xuedong, Elna R. Lopez, Romain G. Magboo. Research on the Effect of Progressive Muscle Relaxation Therapy in Patients with Thyroid Cancer. International Journal of Frontiers in Medicine (2023), Vol. 5, Issue 7: 34-44. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFM.2023.050706.

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