A study to assess the effectiveness of pranayama to relieve stress

among adolescents at selected school at Coimbatore

S. Dhaneesha , M. Kowsalya
II year physician assistant, department of physician assistant,
K.Sumathy , Assistant professor, department of physician assistant
Avinashilingam institute for Home science and higher education for women ,
Coimbatore-43
Email Id : sumathyraja2010@gmail.com

Abstract:
Stress is a dynamic process that changes in quality and quantity
response to internal and external factors. stress has become a endemic over
recent years .The adolescent stage is the most prone age period to get effect of
stress because the adolescent students might face many problems like academic
stress,friend’s problem, romance, family problems and high expectations of
their future. The adolescent stress needs more attention because if stress persist
for a longtime the adolescent may develops anxiety and there is a chance for
suicidal threats. The objectives are to assess the level of stress among
adolescent at selected school at Coimbatore and to demonstrate and evaluate the
effectiveness of pranayama to reduce stress among adolescents. A experimental
descriptive survey design is used to assess the stress among adolescent by using
Quasi experimental approach, a sub type of quantitative research approach.
Study was conducted in selected School about 200 adolescent students are
studying in higher secondary. The methodology includes three steps such as
assessing pre test level of adolescent students followed by live demonstration of
pranayama and assessing post test stress level of adolescent students. The pre
test means score was 43.35, where majority of the participants had mild stress
(5.775),43.1% of the participants had moderate stress and only few participants
had severe stress (3.13%).The post test mean score showed a dramatic declime
to 17.1m,where all the participants only had mild stress (100%).
KEYWORDS: Adolescent, stress, pranayama.
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