Weinberg et al. (34) reported that massage has
a significant positive mood enhancement with significant decreases in tension, confusion, fatigue, anxiety, anger, and depression.
Not exact matches
Delegates in Bonn point to China's
positive mood and Europe's raised ambitions as signs of a
significant shift.
Depressive
mood was not alleviated to any noticeable degree from the interaction with nature compared to urban walks, as
positive mood increased and negative
mood decreased after both walks to an equal and
significant extent.
The
significant drop in the slow - wave sleep was associated with the striking drop in
positive moods, having implications for how everything from stress to depression can affect both sleep and
mood.
Interpersonal family stress contributes to relationship breakdown and lack of perceived social support, and high expressed emotion may contribute to relapse.21 Family - focused treatment has been shown to reduce recurrence when used as an adjunct to medication for bipolar disorder.38 It is initiated once stabilisation of
mood has been effected after an acute episode, and includes the patient and at least one
significant family member (eg, parent or spouse).39 The underlying focus of family - focused treatment is to provide education regarding the recent illness episode; this includes exploring possible causes and the patient's personal triggers, discussing the importance of medication, differentiating between the person and the illness, and enhancing
positive family relationships.40 Improved
positive communication appears to be a key mechanism in this approach.38, 41 Recent studies suggest greater benefits in reducing depressive rather than manic relapses.23, 38,42
Home observations of child behaviors found that PT+CT children significantly outscored controls in terms of
positive affect (
mood) with mothers (but not fathers), while PT group children scored higher than control children for
positive affect with father and had a marginally
significant improvement with mothers.
Higher levels of disruptive child behaviors predicted more daily negative
mood (β = 0.05, p <.01), but the association between disruptive behaviors and daily
positive mood was not
significant.