Objective: To explore the accesibility and the effects of group training of Yikong skills which derived from Chinese Qigong practice and based on the concrete thought theory. Methods: 61 persons participated in the study. Among these people, 31 persons participated in the experimental group, others in the control groups. Group training was given to the experimental group onces a week for 4 weeks; the control group did not receive any training. All the subjects were tested with SDS, SAS, STAI and SCL-90 when the group training was started, finished, 3 months and 6 months after it was finished. Results: ①In the experimental group, 23 subjects finished all activities and testing. In the control group, 26 sub jects finished all of them. ②In the post-test and tracing-test, the scores of all mentioned above of the experimental group were significantly lower than before group training, whereas there was no significant difference in scores from the control group. Conclusion: As a form of intervention, group training has great positive effect on improving the subjects' chronic stress response of physical and mental symptoms.
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