EFFECTIVENESS OF YOGIC INTERVENTION ON PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AMONG THE GERIATRIC PATIENTS
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https://doi.org/10.47413/vidya.v2i1.149Keywords:
Physical Health, Mental Health, Geriatric Patients, Yogic interventionAbstract
The main aim of present research is to study Effectiveness of Yogic Intervention on Physical and Mental Health among the Geriatric male and female Patients. For data collection 50 male and 50 female Geriatric patients were randomly selected from Shanku’s Natural Health Centre to see the effect of yogic intervention on physical and mental health. For data collection Mental Health checklist developed by Dr. Pramod Kumar has been used. To analysis the data t-test is used. Results indicates that Yogic Intervention could help significantly in increasing physical health among male geriatric patients, mental health among male geriatric patients, physical health among female geriatric patients, mental health among female geriatric patients.
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