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Effect of a 12-week yoga therapy program on mental health status in elderly women inmates of a hospice
AIM AND OBJECTIVES: This study was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of yoga on the mental health status of elderly women inmates residing in a hospice in Puducherry. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Forty elderly women were randomly divided into yoga and wait-listed control group. A yoga therapy progr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5225740/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28149064 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-6131.186156 |
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author | Ramanathan, Meena Bhavanani, Ananda Balayogi Trakroo, Madanmohan |
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description | AIM AND OBJECTIVES: This study was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of yoga on the mental health status of elderly women inmates residing in a hospice in Puducherry. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Forty elderly women were randomly divided into yoga and wait-listed control group. A yoga therapy program of 60 min was given twice a week for 12 weeks. This protocol was specially designed for senior citizens, keeping in mind their health status and physical limitations that included simple warm-up and breath-body movement coordination practices (jathis and kriyas), static stretching postures (asanas), breathing techniques (pranayamas), and relaxation. Hamilton anxiety scale for measuring anxiety, Hamilton rating scale for depression, and Rosenberg self-esteem scale to measure self-esteem were administered to both groups before and after the 12-week study period. Data were assessed for normality, and appropriate parametric and nonparametric statistical methods were applied for intra- and inter-group comparisons. RESULTS: Overall, intra- and inter-group comparison of prepost data showed statistically significant (P < 0.001) differences for all three parameters. There was an overall improvement in the scores indicating decreased levels of depression and anxiety coupled with an increase in the level of self-esteem after the yoga therapy program. DISCUSSION: The influence of yoga in the reduction of depression and anxiety scores and improvement in self-esteem scores in elderly women subjects is evident from this study. As reported in earlier studies, this may be attributed to changes in central neurotransmitters such as gamma-aminobutyric-acid coupled with increased parasympathetic tone and decreased sympatho-adrenal activity. CONCLUSION: It is recommended that yoga should be a part of health-care facilities for elderly as it can enhance the quality of life by improving their overall mental health status. It could provide a healthy and positive alternative from depressing negative thoughts, and give them a sense of purpose and hope. |
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spelling | pubmed-52257402017-02-01 Effect of a 12-week yoga therapy program on mental health status in elderly women inmates of a hospice Ramanathan, Meena Bhavanani, Ananda Balayogi Trakroo, Madanmohan Int J Yoga Original Article AIM AND OBJECTIVES: This study was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of yoga on the mental health status of elderly women inmates residing in a hospice in Puducherry. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Forty elderly women were randomly divided into yoga and wait-listed control group. A yoga therapy program of 60 min was given twice a week for 12 weeks. This protocol was specially designed for senior citizens, keeping in mind their health status and physical limitations that included simple warm-up and breath-body movement coordination practices (jathis and kriyas), static stretching postures (asanas), breathing techniques (pranayamas), and relaxation. Hamilton anxiety scale for measuring anxiety, Hamilton rating scale for depression, and Rosenberg self-esteem scale to measure self-esteem were administered to both groups before and after the 12-week study period. Data were assessed for normality, and appropriate parametric and nonparametric statistical methods were applied for intra- and inter-group comparisons. RESULTS: Overall, intra- and inter-group comparison of prepost data showed statistically significant (P < 0.001) differences for all three parameters. There was an overall improvement in the scores indicating decreased levels of depression and anxiety coupled with an increase in the level of self-esteem after the yoga therapy program. DISCUSSION: The influence of yoga in the reduction of depression and anxiety scores and improvement in self-esteem scores in elderly women subjects is evident from this study. As reported in earlier studies, this may be attributed to changes in central neurotransmitters such as gamma-aminobutyric-acid coupled with increased parasympathetic tone and decreased sympatho-adrenal activity. CONCLUSION: It is recommended that yoga should be a part of health-care facilities for elderly as it can enhance the quality of life by improving their overall mental health status. It could provide a healthy and positive alternative from depressing negative thoughts, and give them a sense of purpose and hope. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5225740/ /pubmed/28149064 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-6131.186156 Text en Copyright: © International Journal of Yoga http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Ramanathan, Meena Bhavanani, Ananda Balayogi Trakroo, Madanmohan Effect of a 12-week yoga therapy program on mental health status in elderly women inmates of a hospice |
title | Effect of a 12-week yoga therapy program on mental health status in elderly women inmates of a hospice |
title_full | Effect of a 12-week yoga therapy program on mental health status in elderly women inmates of a hospice |
title_fullStr | Effect of a 12-week yoga therapy program on mental health status in elderly women inmates of a hospice |
title_full_unstemmed | Effect of a 12-week yoga therapy program on mental health status in elderly women inmates of a hospice |
title_short | Effect of a 12-week yoga therapy program on mental health status in elderly women inmates of a hospice |
title_sort | effect of a 12-week yoga therapy program on mental health status in elderly women inmates of a hospice |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5225740/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28149064 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-6131.186156 |
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