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Soubhagyalaxmi Mohanty ¹, Satyaprakash Purohit ², Rima Mayanglanbam ², Rajashree Ranjita ², Balaram Pradhan ², Alex Hankey ²

Affiliations
1 Division of Yoga and Humanities, SVYASA Yoga University, Bangalore, IN
2 Division of Yoga and Humanities, SVYASA Yoga University, Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

The protective effects of fitness on several health related outcomes have clearly been shown among normal sighted students. However, currently there is a dearth of data pertaining to children with visual impairment regarding their fitness. The purpose of the study was to examine differences in minimum muscular fitness among students with visual impairment and normal vision. Two hundred thirty six students; visually impaired (n=125) and sighted (n =111); of South India matched on age, height, weight, and gender participated in this study. Participants were evaluated for minimum muscular fitness through Kraus-Weber test. Chi - square test was used to calculate the frequency and percentage of failure and success in both the groups. The results demonstrated that sighted students had significantly greater levels of muscle fitness than students with visual impairment. It appears that students with visual impairment are deficient in muscle strength as compared to sighted students. Inclusion of physical activities such as yoga in the regular curriculum of the school is suggested for the improvement of the failures status.

Keywords

Visual Impairment, Minimum Muscles Fitness, Kraus-Weber Test.

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Satya Prakash Purohit ¹, Balaram Pradhan ², Hogasandra Ramarao Nagendra ²

Affiliations
1 SVYASA Yoga University, Bengaluru, IN
2 SVYASA Yoga University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

Loneliness is common among orphans and has been found to activate biological stress processes; also responsible for many psychiatric disorders like anxiety, depression, sleep problems, personality disorders, eating disorders along with nausea, headaches and poor immunity. Yoga is already emerged as an integrated approach to bring positive physical and mental health and as a preventive medicine for psychosomatic disorders in children and adolescents; however it is not much tested on orphans. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of a Yoga program on the loneliness in orphan adolescents. This was a randomized wait-list control (WLC) pre-post study. Eighty orphan adolescents of age ranging from 11 to 16 years were included in the study. Yoga group underwent three months of Yoga program with a schedule of 90 minutes per day, four days per week. The WLC group underwent the routine activities. Ethical approval, informed consent form and inform assents were obtained prior to the study. Socio-demographic information form and Children's Loneliness Scale (CLS) were assessed in the beginning and end of the intervention. Independent sample 't' test showed that there was significant difference (p=0.001) in the post scores of CLS in Yoga group compared to WLC group. There were no significant difference observed in both the groups between pre and post scores although the magnitude of change in Yoga group (19.28%, p=0.069) is higher as compared to WLC group (7.45%, p=0.884). Three months Yoga program may be useful for the young orphan adolescents in reducing loneliness.

Keywords

Yoga, Orphan, Loneliness, Adolescence.

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Satya Prakash Purohit ¹, Balaram Pradhan ¹, Soubhagyalaxmi Mohanty ¹, Hogasandra Ramarao Nagendra ²

Affiliations
1 Division of Yoga and Humanities, SVYASA Yoga University, Bengaluru, IN
2 SVYASA Yoga University, Bengaluru, IN

Abstract

Muscle strength is an imperative component of physical fitness. Yoga has frequently been demonstrated to improve physical fitness in adolescents. This study aimed to assess the effect of 12 weeks yoga program on minimum muscular fitness of adolescents dwelling in an orphanage. This was a randomized wait-list controlled pre post study. Seventy two (40 yoga, 32 control) apparently healthy orphan adolescents of both genders with a range of age 11-16 years matched based on age, gender and orphan status were recruited. Minimum muscular fitness was assessed using the Kraus-Weber test at baseline and after 12 weeks of yoga intervention. SSPSS 18.0 was used for data analysis. The percentage of students passed in yoga group were 20 %, and 75 % in pre and post tests respectively whereas percentages in control group remained the same (40.6%) in both tests. McNemar test shows significant differences between pre and post (P<0.001) in yoga group while those in control group was not significant. The study suggests that yoga have considerable benefits to improve muscular fitness level in orphan children and may be recommended as an effective training activity option for them.

Keywords

Muscle Strength, Physical Fitness, Orphan, Yoga, K-W Test.

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Monali Devaraj Mathad ¹, Balaram Pradhan ¹, S. K. Rajesh ²

Affiliations
1 Division of Yoga & Humanities, Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana, Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
2 Division of Yoga & Physical Sciences, Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana, Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

Nurses and nursing students regularly get exposed to pain and sufferings of the patients. Indeed, being empathic and compassionate during patient care is required, yet, the decline in empathy and experience of compassion fatigue was evident during the clinical experience. Here comes the role of self-compassion. Self-compassion is being warm and caring at times of hardship, being kind to self, accepting suffering or unpleasant experiences as they are and being non-judgment. When an individual can be compassionate towards self, he/she can be compassionate towards others during suffering. Substantially, interventions that would improve self-compassion can be emphasized in the nursing curriculum. However, brief self-compassion intervention, MBSR program, and yoga intervention have reported promising results.

Keywords

Empathy, Self-Compassion, Nursing, Yoga.

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