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Reducing Reactions to Blood Donation with Applied Muscle Tension: a Randomized Controlled Trial by Blaine Ditto; Christopher R. France; Pauline Lavoie; Marios Roussos; Perry S.J. Adler is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Reducing Reactions to Blood Donation with Applied Muscle Tension: a Randomized Controlled Trial about?
**BACKGROUND:** Unpleasant blood donation‐related symptoms may discourage otherwise healthy, altruistic individuals from becoming repeat donors. This study examined a behavioral technique called applied muscle tension (AMT) that might reduce reactions. **STUDY DESIGN and METHODS:** A total of 605 donors at mobile clinics were assigned to either an AMT treatment condition, a no‐treatment control condition, or a placebo control condition. AMT involves repeated tensing of major muscles and was taught using an instructional video. Participants in the placebo control group watched the same video but were told to practice the technique only from the time they got on the donation chair until insertion of the needle, without being told that reactions are unlikely during this period. **RESULTS:** There were no differences between men assigned to the three conditions. Women donors assigned to the AMT condition reported significantly fewer donation‐related symptoms, required less chair reclining for reactions, and were more likely to produce a full unit of blood than women in both the no‐treatment and placebo control conditions. Women in the AMT condition also said they would be more likely t
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- Author
- Blaine Ditto; Christopher R. France; Pauline Lavoie; Marios Roussos; Perry S.J. Adler
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Elsevier; Elsevier BV; Wiley (ISSN 0372-1248)
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)