Effect of Postural exercises on Psychological and Biological markers of perceived distress among under graduate students of health professions Program.
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- Enrollment
- 64
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
Study Overview
Brief Summary
Plenty of literature has demonstrated the higherprevalence of stress, anxiety and burnout among students of health professioneducation. Majority of literature has only assessed the level of psychologicalstress in university students but there is dearth of literature which statesabout managing these problems. In the recent era, considering the higher prevalence of psychologicaldistress among students, majority of the schools and colleges have specialcells where students can report such issues or events. However, majority of thestudents do not opt for such services considering it a social stigma. Thiscreates the need of some new intervention to manage such problems in universitystudents. Emotion and mentalattitude have profound effect upon the nervous system as a whole. Depressed and Anxiousindividuals tend to have slower gait, slumped posture, and less steadiness whenwalking than normal individuals. Joy, Winning, Happiness, Success and confidence are stimulating and arereflected by an alert posture in which position of extension predominates.Conversely, Unhappiness, Conflict, feeling looser and inferiority have just theopposite effect and result in postures in which positions of flexion are conspicuous. Thepersistent feeling of worries, sadness or loss of interest that characterisesanxiety and major depression can lead to chronic postural changes. It is certain that themental attitude affects the physical, either temporarily or permanently. Is itnot possible that this can also happen in reverse? Can not a physical attitudeadopted consciously affect the mental attitude? This phenomenon (Posture changes in anxiety and stress) is neither wellstudied in context of physiotherapy nor any treatment protocol addresses theneed of posture exercise program in treatment of stress, anxiety which includesawareness about posture, relation between mind and posture, power pose, bodyexpansion postural exercises in different positions, which is very safe, easyto perform without any harm and can be incorporate in daily life easily.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Computer generated randomization
- Masking
- Not Applicable
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 17.00 Year(s) to 23.00 Year(s) (—)
- Sex
- All
Inclusion Criteria
- •Undergraduate students of any of Health Professional Program viz.
- •Physiotherapy, MBBS, Nursing and Medical laboratory technology from constituent institutes of Bhaikaka University and willing to participate in study.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Participants who are already diagnosed case of Psychiatric illness and on Psychiatric medication.
- •Participants with history of physical disorders and systemic illness for which they are under any standard of medical care that can limit their participation for postural exercises.
- •Participants who are already doing YOGA or Postural exercise.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
Time Frame: 2 weeks
Secondary Outcomes
- State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Blood cortisol level, Heart rate variability(2 weeks)