Indian Journal of Positive Psychology

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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