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Immediate effect of two yoga-based relaxation techniques on attention in children
AIMS: To investigate the effect of two yoga-based relaxation techniques, namely, cyclic meditation (CM) and supine rest (SR), using the six letter cancellation task (SLCT). MATERIALS AND METHODS: The subjects consisted of 208 school students, (132 boys, 76 girls) in the age range of 13 – 16 years. T...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2997234/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21170232 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-6131.72632 |
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description | AIMS: To investigate the effect of two yoga-based relaxation techniques, namely, cyclic meditation (CM) and supine rest (SR), using the six letter cancellation task (SLCT). MATERIALS AND METHODS: The subjects consisted of 208 school students, (132 boys, 76 girls) in the age range of 13 – 16 years. The subjects were assessed on SLCT before and immediately after both yoga-based relaxation techniques. RESULTS: After both practices, the total and net scores were significantly increased, although the magnitude of change was more after CM than after SR in the net scores (14.5 versus 11.31%). The net score change in the CM session was significantly larger than the change in the SR, whereas, there was no significant change in the wrong cancellation score. After either practice, the total and net scores were significantly increased, irrespective of gender and age. CONCLUSIONS: Both CM and SR led to improvement in performance, as assessed by SLCT, but the change caused by CM was larger than SR. |
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spelling | pubmed-29972342010-12-17 Immediate effect of two yoga-based relaxation techniques on attention in children Pradhan, Balaram Nagendra, HR Int J Yoga Original Article AIMS: To investigate the effect of two yoga-based relaxation techniques, namely, cyclic meditation (CM) and supine rest (SR), using the six letter cancellation task (SLCT). MATERIALS AND METHODS: The subjects consisted of 208 school students, (132 boys, 76 girls) in the age range of 13 – 16 years. The subjects were assessed on SLCT before and immediately after both yoga-based relaxation techniques. RESULTS: After both practices, the total and net scores were significantly increased, although the magnitude of change was more after CM than after SR in the net scores (14.5 versus 11.31%). The net score change in the CM session was significantly larger than the change in the SR, whereas, there was no significant change in the wrong cancellation score. After either practice, the total and net scores were significantly increased, irrespective of gender and age. CONCLUSIONS: Both CM and SR led to improvement in performance, as assessed by SLCT, but the change caused by CM was larger than SR. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2997234/ /pubmed/21170232 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-6131.72632 Text en © International Journal of Yoga http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Pradhan, Balaram Nagendra, HR Immediate effect of two yoga-based relaxation techniques on attention in children |
title | Immediate effect of two yoga-based relaxation techniques on attention in children |
title_full | Immediate effect of two yoga-based relaxation techniques on attention in children |
title_fullStr | Immediate effect of two yoga-based relaxation techniques on attention in children |
title_full_unstemmed | Immediate effect of two yoga-based relaxation techniques on attention in children |
title_short | Immediate effect of two yoga-based relaxation techniques on attention in children |
title_sort | immediate effect of two yoga-based relaxation techniques on attention in children |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2997234/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21170232 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-6131.72632 |
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