{"title":"长期练习瑜伽的成年人对瑜伽的感知益处:一项定性研究。","authors":"Şengül Akdeniz, Özlem Kaştan","doi":"10.1186/s13030-023-00276-3","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Previous quantitative studies have shown many of the perceived benefits of yoga practice on the mind and body. Although there are many quantitative studies in the international literature on yoga, the number of qualitative studies showing the experience of yoga practice is insufficient. An accurate demonstration of yoga participents experiences, opinions, and judgments on this subject requires a qualitative, rather than a quantitative approach.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study was to explore the benefit perceived by adults who have practiced yoga for a long time.</p><p><strong>Design and method: </strong>This qualitative study is based on a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach. The research sample consisted of 18 adults who volunteered to participate in the research and regularly joined yoga practice. The study data were collected through individual and focus group interviews with the participants who practise yoga and analyzed by content analysis method.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We created five themes. Themes coded by researchers: meaning of the concept of yoga (theme 1), physical, mental, and social state before starting yoga (theme 2), reasons for practising yoga (theme 3), the participants' experiences related to their physical and mental health and social relationships (theme 4), and difficulties of doing yoga (theme 5). In addition, individuals in the study reported their perceptions of the concept of \"yoga\" through the creation of metaphors that completed the following sentence \"yoga is like ……\". These metaphors were used to give insight into the participants deep feelings about yoga.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Both in their individual and focus group interviews, almost all of the participants described that doing yoga has positive benefits on the mind and body. The positive experiences of the participants in the study included decrease in pain and flexibility, increase in sleep quality, development of positive personality traits, increase in self-esteem, and coping with anxiety and stress more effectively. Because the study was qualitative and long-term, it was able to evaluate the beliefs, attitudes and behaviors of individuals in a realistic, systematic, and detailed manner.</p>","PeriodicalId":9027,"journal":{"name":"BioPsychoSocial Medicine","volume":"17 1","pages":"19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10184339/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Perceived benefit of yoga among adults who have practiced yoga for a long time: a qualitative study.\",\"authors\":\"Şengül Akdeniz, Özlem Kaştan\",\"doi\":\"10.1186/s13030-023-00276-3\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Previous quantitative studies have shown many of the perceived benefits of yoga practice on the mind and body. Although there are many quantitative studies in the international literature on yoga, the number of qualitative studies showing the experience of yoga practice is insufficient. An accurate demonstration of yoga participents experiences, opinions, and judgments on this subject requires a qualitative, rather than a quantitative approach.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study was to explore the benefit perceived by adults who have practiced yoga for a long time.</p><p><strong>Design and method: </strong>This qualitative study is based on a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach. The research sample consisted of 18 adults who volunteered to participate in the research and regularly joined yoga practice. The study data were collected through individual and focus group interviews with the participants who practise yoga and analyzed by content analysis method.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We created five themes. 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Perceived benefit of yoga among adults who have practiced yoga for a long time: a qualitative study.
Background: Previous quantitative studies have shown many of the perceived benefits of yoga practice on the mind and body. Although there are many quantitative studies in the international literature on yoga, the number of qualitative studies showing the experience of yoga practice is insufficient. An accurate demonstration of yoga participents experiences, opinions, and judgments on this subject requires a qualitative, rather than a quantitative approach.
Purpose: This study was to explore the benefit perceived by adults who have practiced yoga for a long time.
Design and method: This qualitative study is based on a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach. The research sample consisted of 18 adults who volunteered to participate in the research and regularly joined yoga practice. The study data were collected through individual and focus group interviews with the participants who practise yoga and analyzed by content analysis method.
Results: We created five themes. Themes coded by researchers: meaning of the concept of yoga (theme 1), physical, mental, and social state before starting yoga (theme 2), reasons for practising yoga (theme 3), the participants' experiences related to their physical and mental health and social relationships (theme 4), and difficulties of doing yoga (theme 5). In addition, individuals in the study reported their perceptions of the concept of "yoga" through the creation of metaphors that completed the following sentence "yoga is like ……". These metaphors were used to give insight into the participants deep feelings about yoga.
Conclusions: Both in their individual and focus group interviews, almost all of the participants described that doing yoga has positive benefits on the mind and body. The positive experiences of the participants in the study included decrease in pain and flexibility, increase in sleep quality, development of positive personality traits, increase in self-esteem, and coping with anxiety and stress more effectively. Because the study was qualitative and long-term, it was able to evaluate the beliefs, attitudes and behaviors of individuals in a realistic, systematic, and detailed manner.
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BioPsychoSocial Medicine is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that encompasses all aspects of the interrelationships between the biological, psychological, social, and behavioral factors of health and illness. BioPsychoSocial Medicine is the official journal of the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine, and publishes research on psychosomatic disorders and diseases that are characterized by objective organic changes and/or functional changes that could be induced, progressed, aggravated, or exacerbated by psychological, social, and/or behavioral factors and their associated psychosomatic treatments.