INFLUENCE OF YOGIC PRACTICES AND INTROSPECTION ON SELECTED PHYSIOLOGICAL VARIABLE AMONG MIDDLE AGED WORKING WOMEN WITH MENSTRUAL PROBLEM
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i5.2024.4528Keywords:
Yogic Practices, Working Women, Menstrual ProblemAbstract [English]
The purpose of this study was to find out influence of yogic practices and introspection on selected physiological variable among middle aged working women with menstrual problem. The selected subjects 45 were randomly divided into three groups equally of which experimental Group – I underwent yogic practices with introspection, Group – II underwent yogic practices without introspection Group – III acted as Control Group. The subjects selected for this study were in the age group of 30 to 40 years. Each group consisting of fifteen subjects, there experimental group as Group I & II and Control group as Group III. The following Physiological variable was selected as dependent variables such as Systolic Blood Pressure and measured by citizen equipment, and the following variable was selected as independent variable as yogic practices and introspection. The data collected on selected criterion variables were subjected to statistical analysis using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) to find out any significant difference between the three groups on Systolic Blood Pressure..
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