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Does floatation therapy reduce anxiety?

Promising, still limited

Small human studies suggest that floatation-REST can reduce short-term anxiety or stress symptoms for some participants, but the evidence base is still limited in size, replication and follow-up. Relaxation immediately after a session is not the same as a durable treatment effect for an anxiety disorder.

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Evidence profile

What the evidence can—and cannot—support

Human evidenceLimited
Randomized evidenceLimited
ConsistencyPromising
ReplicationLimited
DirectnessModerate
Long-term outcomesVery limited
Important uncertainty

Larger independent controlled trials with longer follow-up are needed.

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Research Receipt

An auditable count, not “studies show”

Claim checkedFloatation-REST reduces anxiety.
Dataset edition2026-09-18
38matched publications
11randomized trials
2reviews / meta-analyses
4registered trials
2active trials
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Included: Records in the Floatation-REST topic whose high-signal metadata contains at least one outcome term below.

Outcome expression: "anxiety" OR "stress" OR "anxious" OR "relaxation"

Excluded: Records outside the intervention topic, animal-only records rejected by the source query, and records without an outcome-term match. This is a reproducible index, not a systematic review.

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Why these records count

Each record matched the intervention topic and at least one claim-specific outcome term. Open a record for source metadata and inclusion provenance.

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Evidence that may change the answer

Registration is not a result. Status and dates come from ClinicalTrials.gov.

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Health Research Database. “Does floatation therapy reduce anxiety?” HRD Claim Ledger. Dataset 2026-09-18. Accessed 2026-09-18.

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