Effect of Integrated Yoga Module on Somatic Cognitive and Affective Anxiety among Elderly Men Living in Old Age Homes

Abstract:

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of sixteen weeks Integrated Yoga module intervention on elderly men living in old age homes. It was hypothesized that there would have been a significant effect of sixteen weeks of Integrated Yoga programme on anxiety among elderly men living in old age homes. For the present study thirty (n=30) untrained elderly men were selected as subjects at random from the Government Old Age Homes of Kannur District ,Kerala under the age range of 65 to 70 years. Pre test – post test randomized group design which consists of control group and experimental group was used for the present study. The subjects were randomly assigned to two equal groups of fifteen each (n=15) and named as Yoga Group (YG) and Control Group(CG). Group ‘YG’ underwent Integrated Yoga training and Group ‘CG’ did not undergo any training program rather than their normal daily routine work. Somatic, cognitive and affective anxiety was assessed by using Geriatric Anxiety scale. The data was collected before and after sixteen weeks of training. The data was analyzed by applying Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) technique to find out the effect of Integrated Yoga module programme on somatic, cognitive and affective anxiety among elderly men living in old age homes. The level of significance was set at 0.05. The result showed that there was a significant reduction in the level of anxiety in the Yoga group while there was no significant change in the Control group. On the basis of findings and within the limitations of the study it was concluded that practice of Integrated Yoga Module can reduce anxiety at cognitive, somatic and affective levels in elderly men.

Author Name : Padmanabhan, T.V & Dr.K.Chandrasekaran

Keywords: Integrated Yoga, Module, somatic, cognitive, affective, anxiety.