Effect of Cyclic Meditation on Female Nursing Students
Not Applicable
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2024/03/063815
- Lead Sponsor
- Self
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Healthy females from nursing courses aged 18-25 years.
Subjects having no prior experience with CM.
Participants willing to give consent will be part of the study.
Exclusion Criteria
Male nursing students (WHO, 2021).
Intake of medications that are known to influence cognitive or autonomic functions or mental health.
Participants who are addicted to smoking, alcohol, or any other substances (Pan et al., 2019).
Pregnant or lactating participants will be excluded.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Psychophysiological Variables: Heart Rate Variability using Electrocardiogram (ECG), <br/ ><br>Visuospatial Working Memory using Corsi Block Tabbing Task (CBTT) <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>Stress-Anxiety-Depression using Depression Anxiety Stress Questionnaire-21 (DASS-21), <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>Quality of Sleep using Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)Timepoint: Pre-Assessment (0 Weeks) <br/ ><br>Post-Assessment (12 Weeks) <br/ ><br>Follow-up (18 Weeks)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Biochemical Changes (Oxidative Stress) using the Biomarkers MDA (Malondialdehyde) & GSH (Reduced Glutathione) <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>Spiritual Well-Being (Spirituality Level) using Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS) <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>Prakriti (Vatta, Pitta, Kapha) using AyuSoft Questionnaire & Gunas (Sattva, Tamas, Rajas) using Vedic Personality Inventory (VPI)Timepoint: Pre-Assessment (0 Weeks) <br/ ><br>Post-Assessment (12 Weeks) <br/ ><br>Follow-up (18 Weeks)