This study evaluated the effects of meditation programs on nurses' power and quality of life. In this study, Barrett's power theory derived from Rogers' unitary human being science was used as a theoretical framework. A randomized controlled design with 50 recruited and randomly allocated participants was used. The results demonstrated that the eight-week meditation program significantly improved nurses' power and quality of life. These results suggest that meditation has positive effects on power and quality of life.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of anger management programs based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in psychiatric inpatients. This study used a nonequivalent control group, non-synchronized, and quasi-experimental design. 31 subjects were recruited. The experimental group (n=16) received 5 sessions of 2 week program. The control group (n=15) could receive the same program as the experimental group after completion of the first-and 14th-day questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS for Windows. Compared with the control group, patients on treatment showed significant reduction in scores of anger-out (U=19.50, p＜.001), and anger-expression (U=40.50, p=.001). This present trial results demonstrate that anger management programs significantly reduced anger-out and anger-expression. These results can suggest that anger management programs contribute to controlling anger-expression of psychiatric inpatients. (Korean J Str Res 2014;22:159∼167)