Systematic Relaxation as a Nursing Intervention Technique With Open Heart Surgery Patients

Linda H. Aiken (University of Florida College of Nursing, Gainesville, Fla.; M.N., University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.) is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Texas in Austin. At the time this study was done, she was a nurse specialist and instructor at the University of Missouri School of Nursing at Columbia, Missouri. The study was supported in part by a faculty research grant from the University of Missouri Medical School. Theodore F. Henrichs (Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina) is an associate professor of psychiatry and chief, Section of Medical Psychology at the School of Medicine, University of Missouri at Columbia.