Increased Mental Well-Being and Reduced State Anxiety in Teachers After Participation in a Residential Yoga Program.

IF 2 Q3 MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL
Shirley Telles, Ram Kumar Gupta, Abhishek Kumar Bhardwaj, Nilkamal Singh, Prabhat Mishra, Deepak Kumar Pal, Acharya Balkrishna
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BACKGROUND Reducing stress in the workplace improves mental health. Teaching is of social importance, but it may receive inadequate recognition and rewards. The present study compared mental well-being and state anxiety in primary school teachers who practiced 15 days of yoga in a residential setting with those who continued their usual routine. MATERIAL AND METHODS We enrolled 236 primary school teachers to participate in the study. We assigned 118 primary school teachers (group mean ±S.D., age 41.5±6.0 years, 74 females) to the experimental group; they underwent 15 days of yoga training for 6 hours/day) in a residential yoga center. The non-yoga control group (group mean ±S.D., age 42.3±6.0 years, 79 females) consisted of 118 teachers who continued with their normal teaching routine. RESULTS After 15 days in the residential yoga program, there was an increase in overall mental well-being (p<.001) and lower state anxiety (p<.01) (repeated-measures ANOVA, followed by post hoc multiple comparison tests). At baseline, the non-yoga control group had higher levels of state anxiety, presumably related to their remaining in the workplace. CONCLUSIONS The study was a 15-day, comparative, controlled trial. The results show that after 15 days of participation in the residential yoga program, primary school teachers increased all aspects of mental well-being and had reduced state anxiety.

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教师参加住宿瑜伽计划后心理健康水平提高,状态焦虑减少。
背景 减轻工作压力可以改善心理健康。教学工作具有重要的社会意义,但可能得不到足够的认可和奖励。本研究比较了在住宿环境中练习 15 天瑜伽的小学教师和继续保持日常工作的小学教师的心理健康和焦虑状态。材料与方法 我们招募了 236 名小学教师参与研究。我们将 118 名小学教师(平均年龄(±S.D.),年龄(41.5±6.0)岁,74 名女性)分配到实验组;他们在瑜伽中心接受了为期 15 天、每天 6 小时的瑜伽训练。非瑜伽对照组(平均年龄(±S.D.),年龄(42.3±6.0)岁,女性 79 人)由 118 名教师组成,他们继续进行正常的教学工作。结果 在参加了 15 天的住宿瑜伽课程后,教师的整体心理健康水平有所提高(p
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