Enhancing awareness of yoga in health professions education students through a single interactive session: A pretest-post test study
Journal Title: Journal of Education Technology in Health Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Aim and objective All students enrolled in Health Professions Education HPE at Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth Pondicherry receive introductory yoga sessions during orientation programs conducted by their respective medical dental and nursing colleges at the beginning of their first year of training We conducted a pretestposttest study to evaluate initial yoga awareness amongst HPE students pretest and to assess the changes after a single interactive session of yoga theory and practice posttestMaterial and Methods 367 HPE students 196 F 171 M were divided into seven batches for participation in yoga sessions at the Centre for Yoga Therapy Education and Research CYTER The identical validated Yoga Awareness Questionnaire YAQ was given to them before and after the sessions to evaluate the changes in understanding knowledge about yoga and yoga therapyResults Posttest scores increased significantly p lt 0001 over both pretest scores The differences were significant for all batches of the medical dental and nursing students analysed separately as well as for the overall comparisons of HPE studentsConclusion Even a single interactive session of yoga theory and practice can result in significant improvements in the awareness and knowledge about yoga and yoga therapy thus setting the stage for future short and long term studies on the benefits for such studentsnbsp Keywords Yoga Health professions education Pretestpost test
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Dayanidy G. , Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani, Meena Ramanataan
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