The Effect of Anapanasati Meditation on Depression: A Randomized Control Trial
Journal Title: Journal of Ayurvedic and Herbal Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
Aim: To study the effect of Anpanasati Meditation on individuals with moderate depression. Methods: A total of 115 participants who were willing to participate in the study were recruited for the study. Anapanasati meditation was used as an intervention. The participants were divided into two groups experiment and control groups. Experiment group had 59 persons performing Anapanasati meditation and Control group had 56 persons not performing any type of meditation. The experiment group practiced one hour of Anapanasati meditation daily under the supervision of experts for six months and continued their daily routine and control group was not given any intervention, but they continued their daily routine. Beck Depression Inventory II is used to assess the depression level. Results: The BDI score before and after Anapanasati meditation was analysed for both experiment and control groups using Paired Samples T test. The experiment group has shown significant reduction in the BDI (P < 0.05) score after the intervention whereas in the control group the reduction in BDI score was not significant. Conclusion: This study has shown that after six months of intervention, the subjects with moderate depression who practiced Anapanasati meditation had a significant decrease in their Depression score and the control group has not shown significant change in the depression score.
Authors and Affiliations
B Sivaramappa, Sudheer Deshpande, P Venkata Giri Kumar, H. R. Nagendra
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