Abstract: Three experimental groups of pregnant women in anxiety statewere given EMG biofeedback training, Autogenic training and EMGbiofeedback plus Autogenic training respectively. A control group wasinstructed to relax but not trained with any of the three methodsmentioned above. Each group had 6 30-minute sessions. The averagevariations in EMG, GSR and STAI scores showed that all the three kindsof methods produced significant effects on the three groups of experimental subjects after training but the differences among the three groups hadno statistical significance. The control group showed no relief in thestate of anxiety as indicated in EMG, GSR and STAI data. A follow-upstudy showed that there were differences of statistical significancebetween the experimental groups and the control group. Autogenic trainingwas suggested to be a convenient way of relieving anxiety in pregnantwomen.

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