EFFECT OF YOGA INTERVENTION ON PARTICIPANTS’ HEALTH STATUS AMONG PRE DIABETIC AND DIABETIC PARTICIPANTS – A SINGLE GROUP PRE-POST STUDY

Abstract

Urban India is presently experiencing an upright rush in lifestyle diseases such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension and ischemic heart disease. India is the second largest country which has higher number of diabetes patients .The shift in epidemiology from communicable diseases to non-communicable diseases indicates that the urban population is also at a high-risk for developing such diseases. This shift is due to the change in stress levels and health behavior. The need of this study is due to the underlying fact that yoga has been an effective intervention in the management of lifestyle related diseases based on earlier studies. The primary goal of this study is to assess the efficacy of yoga intervention on the participants’ health status. A diabetes camp was conducted in urban Karnataka. Single group pre-post design was used in this study. Fifty participants were interested to participate in the study and attend the 3 months yoga program for two hours daily. The number of samples who had undergone regular yoga practice were 20. The intervention included breathing, loosening, suryanamaskar, asanas, and pranayama, relaxation and meditation techniques. Participants’ health status was assessed before and after intervention. The initial values of the result is 15.95±2.87 and the obtained final values of the result is 15.35±2.32. The effect size of the result is 0.23 and the change in percentage is observed as 3.76%. The p-value is 0.21 which shows a mild improvement with a non-significant result in the participants’ health status. The PHQ scores of the participants showed a not significant result in the pre-diabetics and diabetics. The non-significant value might have been attributed to the effect of confounding variables like family stress, economic status and work pressure. Present study shows that 90 days of yoga intervention program may bring a mild change in the participants’ health status but not significantly. Furthermore it may help in prevention and management of lifestyle related disorders only if all the confounding variables are nullified.