• DocumentCode
    2020376
  • Title

    The effectiveness of biofeedback training among university students

  • Author

    Vitasari, Prime ; Wahab, Muhammad Nubli Abdul ; Othman, Ahmed ; Awang, Muhammad Ghani

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Technol. Manage., Univ. Malaysia Pahang, Gambang, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    16-18 Nov. 2009
  • Firstpage
    551
  • Lastpage
    554
  • Abstract
    University students need some support program to improve the academic performance. Biofeedback training is one of the effectiveness programs to help students handling the problem regarding of their study process. In this research, the biofeedback training to manage study anxiety in order to increase academic performance among students is proposed. The research was selected for 12 participants. They are divided into two equal groups, the experiment and the control groups. The training runs on six sessions with the experiment groups received full training and no training of the control groups. The result shows that the experiment groups perform better in reducing anxiety levels as well as increase academic performance than that the control groups. Based on these results, biofeedback training can be concluded as an effective program to improve academic performance among university students. Therefore, the participants should be practiced the techniques to get the intensive level in mastering regarding of managing study anxiety and improving academic performance.
  • Keywords
    diseases; medical disorders; patient care; patient treatment; psychology; University students; academic performance; anxiety levels; biofeedback training; control groups; Biological control systems; Decision support systems; Anxiety; Biofeedback training; Students´ academic performance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Research and Development (SCOReD), 2009 IEEE Student Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    UPM Serdang
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5186-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5187-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SCORED.2009.5442939
  • Filename
    5442939