%0 Journal Article
%T A identifica£¿£¿o da ansiedade por meio da an¨¢lise da ¨ªris: uma possibilidade
%A Salles
%A L¨¦ia Fortes
%A Silva
%A Maria J¨²lia Paes da
%J Revista Ga¨²cha de Enfermagem
%D 2012
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.1590/S1983-14472012000100004
%X anxiety is a behavior related to psychosomatic diseases. through an evaluation of the iris it is possible to determine personality traits and to intervene early to refrain any non-adaptive behavior from causing psychosomatic diseases. contraction furrows suggest a predisposition to anxiety. this study aimed to verify the correlation of contraction furrows in the iris with the state-trait anxiety inventory (stai). this study was approved by the research ethics committee of the university of s£¿o paulo, school of nursing, and performed with 62 teachers and employees at the center of health science of the zerbine foundation (cefacs), from may to july, 2010. the spearman coefficient showed a positive and statistically significant correlation between the stai score and the quantity of contraction furrows. this suggests that these signs indicate a predisposition to anxiety. with the early identification of this behavior we have chances to reduce the development of the disease.
%K anxiety
%K iridology
%K disease prevention
%K integrative medicine.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1983-14472012000100004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en