A study to assess the effectiveness of easy dance yoga therapy on stress among elderly in selected old age home in Chennai

Abstract

Geriatric stress is a mental and emotional disorder affecting older adults. A Study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of easy dance yoga therapy on stress among elderly in selected old age home in Chennai. A Quantitative pre-experimental one group pre test and post test adopted for the study and 30 geriatric people were selected by using Purposive sampling technique. Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) which consists of 30 questions was used to collect the data.. Samples were instructed to do easy dance yoga therapy for 15-20 minutes twice a day daily for one month. In pretest score revealed that most of the samples 20(66.7%) had mild level of stress, 8(26.7%) had moderate level of stress and remaining 2(6.7%) were normal and no participants in the severe category of stress. After the easy dance yoga therapy, the mean stress score decreased significantly to 12.87 with a standard deviation of 4.88. The paired t-value was 14.527 with 29 degrees of freedom (df), and the corresponding significance value was less than 0.05 (p