Effect Of Yoga On Perceived Academic Stress Among Undergraduate Nursing Students In The Selected Colleges

Abstract

Aims: To examine the effectiveness of yoga on perceived academic stress among nursing students during their college.
Sample: In this study, the sample consisted of 215 nursing students who fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Non probability Purposive
sampling technique was used.
Place & Duration of the study: The study was conducted in Nursing college at Chennai, duration of this study was three months.
Methodology: Perceived Academic stress scale by Rajendran et al was used to determine the level of Academic stress among
undergraduate nursing students. Yoga intervention were carried out weekly once for three months period.
Results: The perceived stress scale has mean and standard deviation of 28.34± 3.45 and the yoga practice of 5.489± 2.84 which are
statistically significant at p<0.001. Stress was strongly and positively associated with the components such as sleep hours, interest and
motivation to enter nursing, assignments and workload, which was found to be statistically significant (r = 0.9, p < 0.05). There was a
moderate, negative association between stress and parental involvement that was also statistically significant (r = -0.467, p < 0.001).
Conclusion: Students demonstrated reduced level of perceived academic stress after attending a yoga intervention. Results suggest that
adopting a yoga practice twice in a week may reduce Perceived academic stress among nursing students.