Effectiveness of progressive muscle relaxation technique on stress, anxiety and depression in infertile women at a selected hospital, Erode.

A Study to Determine the Effectiveness of Progressive Muscle Relaxation Technique on Stress, Anxiety and Depression in Infertile Women at a Selected Hospital, Erode. Evaluative approach with pre-experimental design was used for this study where non-probability convenience sampling technique was used to select the samples. Structured interview schedule was used to collect data from 40 samples regarding the level of stress, anxiety and depression. The collected data were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings revealed that, among 40 samples, 24 (60%) samples had mild stress in pre-test whereas only 1(2.5%) sample had mild stress and 39 (97.5%) samples had no stress in post-test. In pre-test, 29 (72.5%) samples had mild anxiety and 2 (5%) had severe anxiety whereas in post-test, 33 (82.5%) samples had mild anxiety and 7 (17.5%) had moderate anxiety. In pre-test, 4 (10%) samples had moderate depression and 4 (10%) had severe depression whereas in post-test, none of them had severe depression. This reveals that the level of stress, anxiety and depression was reduced in post-test when compared to pre-test. The paired ‘t’ value for stress, anxiety and depression were 17.20, 8.78 and 9.87 respectively which were greater than the table value at p