Effect of progressive muscle relaxation training on life quality of PTSD veteran's wives

This research was to evaluate the effect of progressive muscle relaxation training on life quality of PTSD war veteran's wives. This clinical trial quasi-experimental study was carried out on 28 war veteran's wives in Tehran city. They were divided into interventional and control groups, randomly. The educational program was performed for intervention group at 3 sessions each lasted 2 hours during a week. However, no training was performed on the control group. The quality of life in both groups was determined before, 6 weeks after (follow up stage) and 12 weeks after training (final test) by SF36 questionnaire. Data was analyzed by SPSS 12 program and statistical tests. According to independent t-test results, there was no significant difference in quality of life mean score before training between two groups (p>0.05) but after intervention, the same test indicated a significant difference between two groups (p<0.001). Paired t-test revealed a significant difference between the quality of life mean score before and after in intervention group (p<0.001). Also, the ANOVA test showed that there was a significant difference in total mean score of quality of life in intervention group before, after and in final test (p<0.001). Relaxation program training to war veteran's wives promotes their life quality.