Abstract
In this study, we used General Health Questionnaire 30 (GHQ30) and voice to evaluate the stress reduction effect of a stress resilience program, and examined the validity of stress evaluation by voice. We divided the subjects who participated in the program into two groups by the number of training sessions. The results showed a stress-reduction effect only in the group with more training sessions (more than 13 sessions) for both GHQ30 and voice-based indexes. Moreover, both indexes showed a highly negative correlation between the pre-training value and the difference between the post-training and pre-training values. This implies that the effect of the training is more evident for subjects with higher stress levels. The voice-based evaluation showed trends similar to those displayed by GHQ30.
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We used 12 as cut-off criteria of two groups, because the value was the median of their training sessions.
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We assumed that increases and decreases in the score would occur with the same probability if the S-Gim were not performed.
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We used the test function in Microsoft Excel 2010 for the tests.
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Since vitality scores are continuous values, there was no subjects whose vitality score did not change.
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We would like to express our sincere appreciation to Colonel Sota Shimozono of JGSDF Medical School and his staff members for their cooperation in sharing S-Gim and collecting data.
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Shinohara, S., Mitsuyoshi, S., Nakamura, M., Omiya, Y., Tsumatori, G., Tokuno, S. (2016). Validity of a Voice-Based Evaluation Method for Effectiveness of Behavioural Therapy. In: Serino, S., Matic, A., Giakoumis, D., Lopez, G., Cipresso, P. (eds) Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health. MindCare 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 604. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32270-4_5
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