Impact of short term yoga intervention on mental well being of medical students posted in community medicine: A pilot study

Bansal, Rahul; Gupta, Monika; Agarwal, Bhaskar; Sharma, Sachin Kumar

doi:10.4103/0970-0218.112445

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“…Various practices of yoga have been found beneficial to attenuate stress and enhance functionality among medical students. Despite an array of coping strategies, yoga practices are found to reduce perceived stress,[ 2 3 4 5 ] anxiety,[ 4 6 7 8 ] markers of stress such as cortisol,[ 9 ] improved general health and well-being,[ 5 10 11 ] physical and physiological health,[ 6 12 13 ] improve cognition[ 14 ] as well as cultivation of positive emotions[ 2 3 7 ] such as empathy, compassion, and self-regulation. There is evidence of a reduction in work-related stress and better autonomic balance with the practice of yoga in health professionals.…”

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Yoga: A strategy to cope up stress and enhance wellbeing among medical students

Saoji

2016

North Am J Med Sci

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Yoga: A strategy to cope up stress and enhance wellbeing among medical students

Saoji

2016

North Am J Med Sci

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“…A structured questionnaire was designed incorporating relevant questions from several studies (Atkinson et al, 2009;Simard & Henry, 2009;Sohl et al, 2009;Bansal et al, 2013) and validated by peer group and professionals in the field. Questionnaire consisted of 30 questions, divided into categories consisting demographic data, perceived physical benefits (4 factors), psychological benefits (8 Factors), overall benefits of yoga (3 factors), perceived barriers in yoga practice(12 factors) and motivation and future implications about yoga (3 factors).…”

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Impact of short yoga intervention on health science students’ perceptions about yoga

Deshpande

Chari

2016

SE Asian Jnl Med Educ

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Introduction: Efficacy of yoga in health science education is well documented. It has shown to be beneficial for students at physical, psychological, social and spiritual levels. Aim of this study was to identify the beliefs and attitudes of health science students about yoga and to determine the impact of short yoga intervention on students' perceptions about yoga with respect to future yoga practice. Methods: A structured questionnaire was administered to 1 st year medical, dental, physiotherapy and nursing students (N= 278) for pre and post interventions. The intervention comprised of 10 hours yoga sessions including yoga postures, breathing exercises, meditation and yoga nidra. Guidance on healthy lifestyle and holistic wellbeing was also given. Results: 97.2 % students believed that yoga helps in keeping optimum fitness with balanced physical, mental and spiritual health. Students acknowledged various physical benefits of yoga, predominantly flexibility (97.3%), stamina (94%) and optimum weight (96.3%). Relaxation (96.7%), improved memory (95.9%) and reduction in stress (92.1%) were the dominant perceived psychological benefits. Perceived dominant barriers in practicing yoga weretime management (71.9%) and lack of motivation (65.1%). There was significant difference in the motivation and time management for yoga in pre and post intervention (p value< 0.001). Conclusion: Health science students had overall positive attitude towards yoga and health. Short yoga interventions did not have significant impact on perceptions of students about benefits of yoga, but helped to overcome barriers by providing motivation and effective time management. Incorporating yoga in health science education will help future professionals to adopt positive health and disseminate the same to their patients and community.

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“…Until and unless our students themselves practice health promotional measures, they are very less likely to guide and motivate their patients and the community to do so. 6 There are many hormones used as stress markers. Stress hormones are produced by the sympathetic nervous system and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis.…”

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Yoga is an effective technique of stress reduction within the medical population: a biochemical study in MBBS students of BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

2020

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Background: Medicine is a profession with high-stress prevalence. There are many stress markers but cortisol is one of the commonly used stress marker. Stress begins in the first year of medical carrier and increases with subsequent years of medical education. There is a decrease in overall academic performance and many health-related adverse effects due to stress. In this study, yoga was performed in the first year MBBS students of BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur and the impact of yoga in stress reduction was studied using serum cortisol as stress a marker.Methods: Study groups, yoga and control contained 26 and 27 subjects including male and female MBBS students. Yoga group practiced selected yogic asana, pranayama, and yoga nidra for 3 months. The control group as a stress marker had been kept in touch and allowed to go on their usual activity as before. Morning (8.00 AM to 9.00 AM) serum cortisol level was used as a stress marker in both group, pre and post-study.Results: There was a significant reduction in morning serum cortisol level (stress level) in yoga group (p-value = 0.0271) but there was no significant change in morning serum cortisol level of the control group (p-value = 0.8573).Conclusions: Yoga is an effective stress reduction technique for medical students. Yoga classes should be introduced in the first year of the medical carrier under the supervision of expert physiologists. This may lead to the implantation of a healthy lifestyle in our future healthcare providers. Yogic practice by health care providers may have long term positive impacts on our healthcare system.

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Impact of short term yoga intervention on mental well being of medical students posted in community medicine: A pilot study

Cited by 35 publications

References 8 publications

Yoga: A strategy to cope up stress and enhance wellbeing among medical students

Yoga: A strategy to cope up stress and enhance wellbeing among medical students

Impact of short yoga intervention on health science students’ perceptions about yoga

Yoga is an effective technique of stress reduction within the medical population: a biochemical study in MBBS students of BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

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