Effect of mind sound resonance technique on anxiety, epression and fatigue in working women

Abstract

Objectives: The present study aimed at assessing the efficacy of a yoga technique called Mind Sound Resonance Technique (MSRT) on working women’s stress level reduction with an age range 30 to 50. Material and Methods: In this randomized two group pre post study, 60 subjects were assigned to two groups (yoga, n=30) and (control, n=30). The yoga group received yogic MSRT for 25 minutes in supine position for 20 days and control group continued with their routine work without any yoga intervention. All instructions of MSRT technique were given verbally. MSRT provides deep relaxation for both mind and body by introspective experience of the sound resonance in the whole body while repeating the syllables A, U, M and Om and a long chant (Mahamrityunjaya mantra) several times in a meaningful sequence. Both the groups had pre and post assessments using HADS (Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale) and PFS (Piper Fatigue Scale) questionnaires. Result: The result showed significant reduction (p<0.05, Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test) in all six variables which are anxiety, depression and fatigue’s four dimensions- behavioral, affective meaning, sensory and cognitive, in experimental group after 20 days (25 min per day) practice of MSRT. Whereas in control group only two variables depression and fatigue’s behavioral dimension showed significant reduction in score. Mann-Whitney test was conducted to compare the results between group, experimental and control. Three variables showed significant results (p<0.05) anxiety and two dimensions of fatigue sensory and cognitive. Conclusion: The assessment and data analysis clearly shows that 20 days practice of MSRT significantly reduced the anxiety, depression and fatigue score of the participants, while improvement was none in the control group. These findings need confirmation from studies with a larger sample size, which are implicated in the future.