A Review of Yoga Therapy Studies

The provided document appears to be an annotated bibliography or literature review on the topic of yoga therapy, specifically focusing on its effects on stress and anxiety. The assignment includes a list of sources (likely a compilation of academic papers) that have investigated the impact of yoga on stress management and anxiety relief. Each source is summarized with a brief description of its methodology, key findings, and conclusions. The purpose of this assignment may be to evaluate the current state of research in this area, identify trends or gaps in existing knowledge, and inform future studies or practice in yoga therapy.

Running head: STRESS MANAGEMENT
Project proposal: Stress Management of Health Care Workers in Aged Care Facilities in
Dementia Ward by Providing Yoga"
Name of the student:
Name of the university:

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
1. Problem statement.......................................................................................................................2
2. Aim, rationale and significant of the project...............................................................................2
2.1 Aim........................................................................................................................................2
2.2 Rationale................................................................................................................................3
2.3 Project significance................................................................................................................3
3. Research questions.......................................................................................................................3
4. Literature review..........................................................................................................................4
5. Project design and method...........................................................................................................5
5.1 Research philosophy..............................................................................................................5
5.2 Research approach.................................................................................................................5
5.3 Data collection method..........................................................................................................6
5.4 Research design.....................................................................................................................6
6. Proposed timeframe.....................................................................................................................7
7. Expected outcome........................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
From the psychologist perspectives stress is referred to as a reaction that include danger,
threat, illness, new and many significant changes in the daily life style. Stress management is a
technique which is intended to equip any single person with efficient coping mechanism
(Palinkas et al. 2015). It is expected that the mechanism will help people to deal with different
psychological stress.
This research depicts the effectiveness of Yoga in healthcare for reducing stress of the
health workers in the aged care facilities. The aim, rationale and significant of the project are
illustrated in this research proposal. Different methods and therapy are available through which
stress can be reduced (Roche et al. 2014). Yoga is one of the best care practices that help to
promote healthy lifestyle to the health care workers. In order to define stress and stress
management mechanism, literature review has been conducted and also research methods and
design are elaborated in this proposal.
1. Problem statement
Stress has become a significantly arising issue in people’s daily life which is hampering
the health condition of people belongs to different age group (Jindani, Turner and Khalsa 2015).
In addition to this due to lack of managerial and stress management mechanisms, the people are
continuously facing major health care issues that are required to be resolved.

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2. Aim, rationale and significant of the project
2.1 Aim
The aim of the research is to provide proper stress management mechanism in terms of
Yoga to aged people of “Aged Care Facilities in Dementia Ward”. Additional aim is to identify
the effectiveness of Yoga for reducing the stress of the health care workers who are working in
the aged care facilities.
2.2 Rationale
The rationale of this research proposal is to identify the causes of stress that interrupts the
regular healthy lifestyle of the health workers and other people as well. Due to the extreme rise
of stress among the common peoples currently stress management has also become an important
part to be considered to reduce the rate of stress among all (Carson and Carson 2016). This
particular research proposal will explore the stress management approach in terms of Yoga by
the health care workers in aged care facilities in Dementia Ward.
2.3 Project significance
The project is focused to identify significant reasons of stress and the other tools and
mechanism that are helping people to minimize rather get rid of stress or mental pressure. Stress
should be minimized because it not only interrupts the daily lifestyle but also results many health
issues accordingly (Felton, Coates and Christopher 2015).
3. Research questions
PICOT method has been followed to develop the questions and the research questions are
as follows:

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 What are the different types of Yoga the health care department is looking for; is
this for all the staff members or only for a specific group of people?
 How does the level of stress will be measured?
 Are there readily available tools available or the designer will design one new?
 Context and the setting of the project
4. Literature review
According to Shamekhi et al. (2017), stress is referred to as one of the most frequently
arising issues in the current daily life style which is the major reason of heath condition
declination. It also causes other healthcare issues. Thus In order to conduct a healthy life style it
is necessary to adopt proper stress management mechanisms. Yoga is identified as one of the
most widely used and healthy mechanism for managing mental stress among the aged group. The
health care workers of aged care facilities in dementia ward are focused to implement Yoga for
the patients to reduce the stress level rather focused on build new design. Felton, Coates and
Christopher (2015), stated that stress can either be temporary or permanent, thus before applying
proper management mechanism approach the sources of stress should be identified. Stress can be
defined as a integrated part of our daily life.
Stress is a regularly arising problem of life that also causes different issues in the regular
life style. If proper actions are not taken on time then it will lead to major health issues not only
for the aged but for everyone belongs to different age group (Carson and Carson 2016).
Nervousness, laziness are also causes due to extreme stress. There are many things which can
trigger the reaction of stress. In addition to this many other techniques besides Yoga are there

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which help to manage the stress level among the aged group of people. The stress management
mechanism includes the following techniques:
 Self understanding such as personality identification
 Self management through meditation
 Breathing exercise
Chang et al. (2016) opined that, if anyone wills to alleviate the stress, then certain simple
techniques are there that will help the aged group of people to get rid of the vicious cycle of
stressful lifestyle. Taking break from the stressors is another helpful option that helps to give
positive energy ad also reduce he mental stress. Music therapy can also help someone come out
from a stressful lifestyle. Social support and meditation are also mindful players that reduces the
stress level of people belongs to different age group
5. Project design and method
5.1 Research philosophy
Three different types of research philosophies such as realism, interpretivism and
positivism are available and based on the research topic, the most suitable research philosophy is
needed to be adopted (Hussein 2015). In order to understand the impact of stress in daily life and
the other issues that may rise due to the extreme stress, can be explored with the help of realism
research philosophy. It also helps to exploit the hidden facts of the research topic. However for
this research both the positivism and interpretivism research philosophy are avoided it deals with
scientific data.

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5.2 Research approach
There are two different kinds of research approaches such as deductive and inductive are
used widely by the researchers to conduct any research work successfully. In order to understand
the relationship between stress and peoples and the reasons for which the level of stress are
growing simultaneously among people can be understand easily with the help of deductive
research approach (Palinkas et al. 2015). It also gives different approaches that help to overcome
the challenges and research gaps much professionally. In order to define the details of stress
management mechanism inductive research approach is avoided because it deals with complex
and huge projects. Inductive approach fails to provide proper termination to the readers.
5.3 Data collection method
Two different kinds of data collection methods are there such as primary and secondary.
Data are the most important asset regardless of the type of any research work. Primary data are
gathered through primary research like question, survey etc. whereas; secondary data deals with
data gathered from different journals, blogs and secondary sources.
The data collection is further segmented as qualitative and quantitative data. Both of
these data collection methods are used to conduct the details of stress management (Hussein
2015). In order to understand the reason of stress among the people and the mechanism adopted
to reduce the rate of stress the health workers have identified Yoga as the most effective
healthcare mechanism in the aged care facilities in Dementia Ward. In order to understand the
nature of stress among people it is necessary for the researcher to adopt the mist suitable data.
For this particular proposal qualitative data are needed to be collected through conducting
survey. It will help the research to identify the features of Yoga as a stress management

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mechanism and at the same time researcher can also develop new option or mechanism for
managing stress among the aged group of people.
The employees who are working in the healthcares industries are taken as the participants
of the survey and as it is a minor project thus the chosen sample size for the project is 20.
5.4 Research design
In order to accomplish a research work successfully, an accurate and mannered sequence
should be followed by the researchers. For conducting the research work successfully, through
considering Yoga as a stress management mechanism or another newly developed mechanism
among the three different research design approaches such as descriptive, exploratory and
explanatory the most suitable design should be selected by the researcher (Harris et al. 2016).
For this particular topic the descriptive design should be adopted.
6. Proposed timeframe
Activities Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7
Research
topic
selection
Research
question
analysis
Conducting
literature
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Research
method
and deign
selection
Data
collection
through
primary
approach
Qualitative
data
analysis
Identifying
research
limitation
Expected
outcome
and
assumption
analysis
Final
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7. Expected outcome
It is expected that if the research work conducted successfully then it will be able to give
the answers for the research questions. With this particular flow the types of Yoga mechanism
those are to be applied, the stress level measurement approaches and all the readily available
tools for developing a new design can be easily exploited. It will also help the workers to reduce
the level of stress.

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