When confronting a threatening or stressful situation, the body responds to the stressors with a series of chemical reactions that affect heart rate, blood pressure, and other functions. The Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) was used as a measure of anxiety levels in both the control and intervention groups (Bothe, 2014). When the raw scores were compared post-intervention, the intervention group had a significant decrease in the total anxiety raw score than the control group. The control group did not show any change. At the one-year follow up, the results showed to be consistent with the post-intervention result.
