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
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