MSc Dissertations (Submitted by MSc Students)
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Item Part I Madhumeha and mitahara according to yoga and Spiritual lore Part II effect of 10 days yoga on body compositions in type 2 diabetic mellitus(S Vyasa, 2015-12-19) Pandey, Krishna KumarBackground The type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a metabolic disorder characterized by insulin resistance and impaired insulin secretion. It is the most prevalent metabolic condition and one of the major health and socioeconomic problems worldwide. A number of behavioral interventions have been suggested for preventing and controlling type 2 diabetes mellitus, including increased physical activity, diet modification, and cessation of smoking (Hu, 2011). In addition, there is growing evidence that psychological stress and negative mood states are bidirectional associated with insulin resistance, glucose intolerance, central obesity, hypertension, and dyslipidemia. Subsequently, mind-body interventions have been suggested to aid in regulating stress psychophysiology. In this light, yoga has been suggested as a complementary and alternative medicine for the treatment of T2DM. Yoga has been demonstrated to reduce stress and induce relaxation, which could aid in controlling symptoms of T2DM. Previous study on the effect of Integrated Approach of Yoga Therapy (IAYT) program on body composition and insulin resistance (IR) in T2DM reported reduction in IR, Body Mass Index (BMI), body fat, visceral fat, triglycerides and hyperglycemia; and increases lean body mass within two weeks. The present study is designed to assess the effect of Integrated Yoga Therapy (IYT) on body compositions in patients with T2DM. Objective To study the effect of IYT on Weight (Wt), Fat, Visceral Fat (Vfat), Resting Metabolism (RM), BMI, Body Age (BA), Subcutaneous Whole Body (SubWB), Subcutaneous Trunk (SubTrunk), Subcutaneous Arms (SubArms), Subcutaneous Legs (SubLegs), Skeletal Whole Body (SkeWB), Skeletal Trunk (SkeTrunk), Skeletal Arms (SkeArms), Skeletal Legs (SkeLegs). Materials and methods: In this single group pre-post study, 44 subjects (29 males and 15 females) with age ranging from 35 to 70 years were participated. The subjects were received IYT of one and half hour duration daily for 10 days. The Wt, Fat, Vfat, RM, BMI, BA, SubWB, SubTrunk, SubArms, SubLegs, SkeWB, SkeTrunk, SkeArms, SkeLegs were recorded before and after the intervention of IYT using Karada Scan body composition monitor HBF-375 from OMRON HEALTHCARE SINGAPORE PTE LTD. This machine is useful for a more accurate and precise body composition measurement. Statistical analysis: The SPSS-16 was used to analyze the data. The Shapiro-Wilk Test showed that the data is not normally distributed. Further, the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test was used for analyze the change in means of pre and post measurements. Results: The data analysis showed that there was 0.42% significant decrease (p<0.001) in Wt, 2.74% significant decrease (p<0.001) in Fat, 0.52% significant decrease (p<0.001)in BMI, 0.65% significant decrease (p=0.005) in BA, 0.99% significant decrease (p=0.036)in SubWB and 6.14% significant increase (p=0.047) in SkeTrunk. Furthermore, a nonsignificant decreased trend was observed in VFat (0.29 % ↓, p=0.298), SubArms (0.08%↓, p=0.051), SubLegs (1.15 % ↓, p=0.053) and SkeLegs (0.04 %↓, 0.529). Conclusion: The present study suggests that 10 days IYT reduces Wt, Fat, BMI, BA, SubWB and SkeTrunk in patients with T2DM. Thus the IYT has a great promise for the management for T2DM. Additional well-designed studies are needed before a strong recommendation can be made.Item Effect of pranayama and ayurvedic treatement on arthritis(S Vyasa, 2015-12-19) SHAMNA, T. V.ABSTRACT Background: The aim of this study is to measure the effect of combined ayurveda and yoga therapy on osteoarthritis (OA) disease activity, pain and associated insomnia. Subjects were recruited from among OA patients in Calicut corporation government dispensary, Kerala by clinical diagnosis as experimental group. The control group is recruited from a medical camp conducted by Arogyamithram Ayurvedic and Yoga medical centre, Palath, Kozhikode Kerala. Pain disability questionnaire, Wong-Baker FACES pain rating scale, Numeric pain rating scale, Verbal pain intensity scale and Pittsburgh Insomnia Rating scale are documented. On the first day of yoga session along with Ayurvedic medication and after giving the same for experimental group and on the same days for the control group also without giving yoga and Ayurveda. The sample size of experimental group is 25 and control group is 24.At the end of the study we observed a significant reduction in pain, disability and insomnia in experimental group and there was an increase in pain, disability and insomnia in the control group. These findings assist the idea of implementation of yoga along with Ayurveda in osteoarthritis treatment. The previous studies on arthritis shows that yoga practices along with Ayurveda in Osteoarthritis patients lead to significant reduction in pain, disability and improvement in sleep quality. Aim: To study the effect of combined Ayurveda and yoga therapy on osteoarthritis. Methodology: The experimental group samples are recruited from government Ayurvedic dispensary, Calicut, Kerala and the control group samples are taken from a medical camp conducted by Argyamithram Ayurveda and yoga medical centre and anugraha charitable trust, Calicut, Kerala .The sample size of experimental group was 25 and control group was 24. Result: Paired sample t-test showed significant reduction in pain and disability in experimental group ,but slight increase in pain and disability in control group. There was a reduction insomnia rating scale in experimental group and increase in control group which are statistically not significant. Conclusion: One month of yoga practice along with Ayurveda in Osteoarthritis patients lead to significant reduction in pain, disability and improvement in sleep quality. Similar studies with large sample size and randomized sampling should replicated to confirm the consistency of results.Item Effect of yoga on prison population(S Vyasa, 2015-01-12) Bharati PatilObjective: The present study is aimed at assessing the Psycho-emotional well-being of the male Indian prisoner population after 45 days of the holistic yoga training program. Method and Material: Total 40 prisoners age between 20 to 45 years. Fulfilling the inclusion and exclusion criteria recruited for 45 days Yogä program. Participants were assessed for General health, Anxiety and depression, and positive and negative effect, perceived stress scale, Quality of life at the beginning and end of 45 days yoga program. The prisons were assessed before and after yoga intervention. Result: Results demonstrated that the prison population belonging to yoga group showed significant improvement in General health four domains of GHQ somatisation (p=0.002) Anxiety (p<0.001) social dysfunction ( p<0.001); sub-scale of PANAS, positive affect (p<0.040); Negative Affect (p =0.012), other Positive-affect (p<0.001), others Negative Affect (p<0.001).. There were non-significant changes in scores hospital anxiety and depression, Anxiety (p = 0.306), Depression (p=0.830), Perceived Stress scale (p = 0.156), domains of quality of measures scores Conclusion: The present study suggests that short terms 45-day yoga practice had positive influence on psychological measures in prison population.Item Effect of one month residential yoga program on measuring the positive and negative attitude(S Vyasa, 2015-01-12) Ashwini, H. R.Introduction 1.1 Attitude An attitude is an expression of favor or disfavor toward a person, place, thing, or event the attitude object. Prominent psychologist Gordon Allport once defends attitudes "the most distinctive and indispensable concept in contemporary social psychology."Attitude can be formed from a person's past and present. The study of attitudes include attitude measurement, attitude change, and attitude-behavior relationships. 1.2 Definition of Attitude The definition of attitude is an evaluation of an attitude object to vary from extremely negative to extremely positive, but also admits that people can also be conflicted or ambivalent toward an object meaning that they might at different times express both positive and negative attitude toward the same object. This has led to some discussion of whether individual can hold multiple attitudes toward the same object. An attitude can be as a positive or negative evaluation of people, objects, events, activities, and ideas. It could be concrete, abstract or just about anything in your environment, but there is a debate about precise definitions. Define an attitude as "a psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favor or disfavor though it is sometimes common to define an attitude as affect toward an object, affect discrete emotions or overall arousal is generally understood to be distinct from attitude as a measure of favorability. Attitude may influence the attention to attitude objects, the use of categories for encoding information and the interpretation, judgment and recall of attituderelevant information can be more powerful for strong attitudes which are easily accessible and based an elaborate knowledge structure Attitudes may guide attention and encoding automatically, even if the individual is pursing unrelated goals. Attitudes are explicit deliberately formed versus implicit subconscious has been a topic of considerable research. Research on implicit attitudes, which are generally unacknowledgedItem Effect of mind sound resonance technique (msrt: a yogic relaxation technique) on perceived stress, state anxiety & IVF outcome in women undergoing IVF treatment a randomised control study(S Vyasa, 2015-01-12) Munirathna, M.Background The women undergoing infertility treatments are under stress and anxiety. The aim of this study was to see the effect of Mind Sound Resonance Technique (A Yogic Relaxation Technique) on Perceived Stress, State Anxiety and the outcome of IVF in women undergoing IVF treatment. The studies like The prevalence of primary infertility in Mysore by Paul C.Adamson1 and colleagues, Stress and Anxiety during IVF by Kathy Turner2 and colleagues, Influence of stress and anxiety in women entering IVF by Csemiczky G3 and colleagues, etc. done worldwide also show that women undergoing IVF are stressed and anxiety levels are high during different stages of treatment and the effect on the outcome. Method Randomized control study was done on the women patients who started their IVF treatment. State Trait Anxiety Inventory (Spielberger, C.D., Sydeman, S.J. (1994) and Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen & Williamson, 1988) were measured on the first day of hormone stimulation and repeated after Embryo Transfer. Taking the environment of the clinic into consideration, the first 30 women were taken into the control group and the women who came in later were taken into experiment group. The experiment group were given the intervention, Mind Sound Resonance Technique (A Yogic Relaxation) during the stimulation days and on the day of Embryo Transfer. The patient was allowed to record the audio of the intervention and practice the relaxation technique even at home (till they came for the Beta HCG: implantation blood test). Both groups were compared in terms of demographic details and clinical details. The two group study was then related to see the outcome after the treatment. Results Comparison of the demographic details showed no significant difference. The total hormone stimulation also showed no significant difference when compared to both the groups. Both groups were comparative in terms of age, duration of infertility, FSH, AMH, dosage and number of days of stimulation. The quality of the embryos, embryo transferred and embryo frozen did not show significant difference, which means that this study was a very good comparative study. The Student t-test (unpaired) was done on the State anxiety (STAI) score of the patient on the first day of stimulation and after the Embryo Transfer. The p value on the day of stimulation did not show significant difference when compared with the two groups. Whereas, the p value showed strongly significant (0.001**) change in the State anxiety score post Embryo Transfer. The Student t test (unpaired) was done on the Perceived Stress (PSS) score of the patient on the first day of stimulation and after the Embryo Transfer. The p value, on the day of stimulation did not show significant difference when compared with the two groups. Whereas, the p value showed moderate significant (0.037*) change in the Stress score post Embryo Transfer. The Chi-Square test is done to assess the outcome in both the groups. The results were significantly high with the outcome of pregnancy being 9 (30%) positives in control group and 17 (56%) positives in experiment group. The age group was categorized in both experiment group and control group to study the Beta HCG positive outcome. As further test of analysis, when the results were compared according to the different age group categorization, Beta HCG positivity showed a positive trend in the experiment group when compared to the control group though it was not statistically significant. The clinical pregnancy rate shows that experiment group had significantly less number of patients who experienced abortions and significantly more number of patients who achieved clinical pregnancy. Conclusion The findings of the present study show that Mind Sound Resonance Technique (MSRT: A Yogic relaxation) intervention is a good technique to reduces Perceived Stress and State Anxiety in women undergoing IVF treatment, in turn helps in implantation and improving outcome of clinical pregnancy.Item Risk of diabetes and prevelance among tribals in Karnataka - a survey(S Vyasa, 2015-01-12) Mallika, B. K.Background: Increasing diabetes mellitus among the people of India, particularly in people of tribal areas due to the ignorance about diabetes and health condition, it is essential to implement a low cost screening method, to manage the diabetes mellitus through diabetes management program in tribal areas of Karnataka. We found a positive result by using oral glucose tolerance testing (OGTT) alone, or following a positive result from the Indian Diabetic Risk Score (IDRS) in tribal people. Aim: Determine diabetes mellitus prevalence population in Karnataka Tribal Areas. Methodology: 555 populations with an age range above 30yrs, people in Machuru village and Machuru Hadi are surveyed Indian Diabetes Risk Score (IDRS) and their blood samples were collected and tested with the help of Gulcometer (FBS/RBS) to know the number of Diabetes. Result: There were 160 participants; out of those 68 participants were male and categorized, which are 29 Normal participant with a mean range of 88.79 (± 16.82), 6 Pre-DM participant with a mean range of 134.17 (± 25.58), 2 DM participant with a mean range of 275.00 (±195.16). 92 participants female categorized, which are 51 Normal participant with a mean range of 97.69 (± 19.69), 12 Pre-DM participant with a mean range of 140.00 (±27.96), 3 DM participant with a mean range of 225.33 (±82.97). Conclusion: Prevalence of diabetes risk is high in tribals.Item Impact of night shift work on anxiety in IT professionals(S Vyasa, 2015-01-12) Singh, Maibam HonisonA number of different psychological disorders have been found in night shift work including insomnia, anxiety, depression. Aims: The purpose of the present study was to assess the level of anxiety in night shift IT professionals. Settings and Design: The cross sectional design study consists of sample 100 employee (50night shift+50day shift) recruited from two different IT company based in Bangalore, India. Their age ranged from 22 to 34 years. Methods and Material: The Assessment packets include questionnaire such as Spielberger’s State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). Results: The data analysis has shown that night shift IT workers has more anxiety levels than Day shift workers and poor quality of life. Conclusions: Night shift IT professionals have more anxiety level than day shift IT professions.Item Effect of “three months yogasana practice on blood pressure, lipid profile, hematological parameters in healthy adults”(S Vyasa, 2015-01-12) Lalit MadaanTitle: Effect of “Three Months Yogasana Practice on Blood Pressure, Lipid Profile, Hematological Parameters. Background: Yoga has positive impact on health. Various studies have formed significant role of yoga in hypertension, diabetes, asthma etc. long term of practice of yoga have positive role in hematological variables. Aim: Current study was conducted to see short term effect of Yogasana intervention on Hematological Parameters,Lipid Profile, and Anthropometric variables in healthy volunteers. Methodology: Twenty healthy volunteers (male-12, female-08) with average age (30.91±11.88) of Vishwa Yuvak Kendra (NGO) at Chankya Puri, New Delhi, were recruited in this study. All the subjects underwent yoga intervention for three days a week with two hours daily for three months. Lipid profile; total cholesterol (TC=0.037), triglyceride (TG=0.372), high density lipid (HDL=0.168), low density lipid (LDL=0.092), very low density lipid (VLDL=0.041), hematological parameters; hemoglobin, total leucocytes count, (TLC=0.009), differential leucocytes’ count (DLC=P-0.008,L-0.009,E-0.943), body mass index (BMI=0.343), pulse rate, blood pressure, were assessed before & after the intervention. Result: Paired sample t-test showed significant reduction in total cholesterol, LDL, BMI, significant improvement in hemoglobin. Wilcoxon signed rank test showed significant decrease in systolic blood pressure and borderline significant decrease in diastolic blood pressure. Conclusion: Three months of Yogasana intervention may help in improving hemoglobin percentage, and helps in reducing bad cholesterol, BMI and systolic and diastolic blood pressure.Item Part I prevalence of diabetes Thiruvegappura village in Palakkad district Kerala : a cross section survey(S Vyasa, 2015-01-12) Kutrty, .K KrishnanDEFINITION Diabetes Mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced.[ Shoback et al 2011 ] Type 2 diabetes mellitus is characterized by insulin resistance, which may be combined with relatively reduced insulin secretion.[ Shoback et al 2011 ] Type 2 diabetes is the most common type. 1.2 EPIDEMIOLOGY India has more diabetics than any other country in the world, according to the International Diabetes Foundation. The disease affects more than 50 million Indians. The average age of affliction of diabetes is above 40 years. India's growing middle class life style of high calorie food and low physical activities is considered to be one of the main causes for diabetes. According to the International Diabetes Federation in the year 2006 the number of people with type 2 diabetes in India is around 40.9 million and this is expected to rise to 69.9 million by 2025.The more disturbing trend is the shift in age of onset of diabetes to a younger age. 1.2 TYPES There are three main types of diabetes mellitus (DM). • Type 1 DM results from the body's failure to produce insulin, and currently requires the person to inject insulin or wear an insulin pump. This form was previously referred to as "insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus" (IDDM) or "juvenile diabetes". • Type 2 DM results from insulin resistance, a condition in which cells fail to use insulin properly, sometimes combined with an absolute insulin deficiency. This form was previously referred to as non insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) or "adult-onset diabetes". • The third main form, gestational diabetes occurs when pregnant women without a previous diagnosis of diabetes develop a high blood glucose level. It may precede development of type 2 DM. [Cooke et al 2008]Item Impulsivity in diabetes(S Vyasa, 2015-01-12) Kumar, R. KrishnaDiabetes mellitus (DM), is a group of metabolic condition characterized by high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period. 1.1 Prevalence of Diabetes: In the world, in 2010, 285 million people had diabetes as per the estimation, with type 2 diabetes making up about 90% of the cases. In 2013, according to International Diabetes Federation, an estimated 381 million people had diabetes. Its prevalence is increasing rapidly, and by 2030, this number is estimated to almost double. Diabetes mellitus occurs throughout the world, but is more common (especially type 2) in the more developed countries. The greatest increase in prevalence is, however, expected to occur in Asia and Africa, The increase in incidence in developing countries follows the trend of urbanization and lifestyle changes, perhaps most importantly a "Western-style" diet. According to international diabetic foundation, India is a leading country in the prevalence of diabetes in the world. It is estimated the more than 62 million Indians which is more than 7.1% of India's Adult Population. An estimate shows that nearly 1 million Indians die due to Diabetes every year. The average age on onset is 42.5 years.5 The high incidence is attributed to a combination of genetic susceptibility plus adoption of a high-calorie, lowactivity lifestyle by India's growing middle class. Additionally, a study by the American Diabetes Association reports that India will see the greatest increase in people diagnosed with diabetes by 2030. 1.2 Psychological aspects of living with DM There is strong relation of psychological aspects with DM 9. This correlation is bidirectional and implications of the everyday management of diabetes can also have an impact on a person’s psychological wellbeing.9 At some point of their lifetime diabetic people have a diagnosable psychiatric disorder and there is coping difficulties, due to the daily stress of living with the disease. Recently it is reported that many chronic disorders are strongly associated with psychological conditions like shock, anxiety, depression , guilt, stress, mood swings etc. This affects cognition, personal and social relation. Being a chronic disease diabetes is characterized by many psychological issues and the effects of stress on its control The cause of these psychological issues could be because of implication of diabetic management, poor quality of life, diabetic complications, uncontrolled sugar levels, comorbidities, and stress induced by disease itself. It is reported that anxiety is and emotional distress are the most common psychological issues in diabetes. Emotional barriers as a role in affecting the psychological aspect with Diabetes. It was reported that the prevalence of psychiatric diseases is more common in diabetes than healthy population. Other psychological conditions which are frequently observed in diabetes are Mood disorder, Bipolar disorder and cognitive impairment like poor memory, attention deficit, problems of perception etc. It also indicates that among the DM there is possibility of Risk Factors for Poor Cognitive Performance Hence, The Psychosocial problems appear to be common among diabetic patients worldwide. Addressing these problems may improve diabetes outcomes. The implications of a diagnosis of diabetes on the person and their family are immense.