Effect of Pranayama and Aerobic exercise on stress levels of medical students
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Physiology - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
Recently stress during medical education is increasingly reported. Unmanaged stress has a negative impact on quality of life and in medical students affect their academic performance and may develop stress related anxiety disorders and depression. Present study is to find out whether regular Pranayama or Aerbic exercise can relieve stress and improve their physical and emotional well being and improve their academic performance. Total 120, 1st year medical students participated in the study, 40 for Pranayama and 40 for Aerobics and 40 were controls. Stress level was measured by stress questionnaire before and after training. One group was doing Pranayama and other group was doing Aerobics every day in the morning for half an hour under expert guidance for 30 days. Statistical analysis was done. There was remarkable and significant decrease in stress levels. Pranayama and Aerobics act as stress relivers. These easily available tools should be part of stress management plan in medical curriculum
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Usha Patil, Vilas Ruikar, Atish Pagar, Savita Kittad
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