HLT1RAE Assignment: Article Summary on Yoga and Mental Health

This report summarizes the article "The Effect of Yoga on Stress, Anxiety, and Depression in Women" by Shohani et al. (2018), which investigated yoga as a complementary medicine for women. The quasi-experimental study involved women from an Ilam yoga club in Iran, using the DASS-21 questionnaire to assess stress, anxiety, and depression. Participants engaged in hatha yoga exercises three times a week for 12 sessions. Results from 52 women showed significant reductions in depression, anxiety, and stress (P<0.001) after the intervention. The study concluded that yoga effectively reduces these mental health issues and can be considered complementary medicine, potentially lowering treatment costs. Future research is recommended to explore long-term effects.

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The article "The Effect of Yoga on Stress, Anxiety, and Depression in Women" written by
Shohani et al., (2018).
The study purposed to investigate the use of Yoga as complementary medicine. It aims at finding
prove on the medicinal nature of Yoga. Recent research had found Yoga to be curative, but the
researchers in this study went an extra mile to prove to examine the effect Yoga can have on
stress, depression as well as anxiety on women. The study was a quasi-experimental study which
contained a test in a pre-post nature.
It was conducted among a study population of ladies who were admitted to the club of yoga
found in the Ilam city in Iran during the year 2014-2015. The Ilam University of Medical
Sciences ethical committee approved the study. It used an inclusion and exclusion criteria. The
inclusion criteria involved the educated, no pregnant, nonathlete, ladies who could perform hatha
yoga exercises correctly whereas the exclusion criteria consisted of the unwillingness in yoga
performance, receiving treatment for mental disorders as well as contemporary practices
(Shohani et al., 2018).
To collect data correctly, the researchers used questionnaires of DASS-21(Depression Anxiety
Scale-21) (Shohani et al., 2018). Saheb et al., as well as Cronbach's alpha estimated the validity
and reliability of the questionnaire as a data collection method as 0.7 on depression, 0.66 for
anxiety and 0.76 for stress.

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To achieve its aims and objectives, the study subjected selected population of women to a total
of seven questions. The hatha yoga exercises in the research were conducted three times a week
with each session taking 60-70 minutes.
The interventions lasted for 12 sessions and before each session women filled the questionnaire
continuously until the 12th session. The training sessions constituted of postures, meditation and
breathing techniques.
SPSS version 20 of version IBM, Armonk, NY, USA was used to analyze the collected data in
the research (Shohani et al., 2018). For comparison purposes paired sample t-tests were
conducted on the results before the intervention and after it. The study employed a threshold of
significance set at P< 0.05.
The study results were collected from a sample of 52 women who had a mean age of 33.5 less or
add 6.5 years. In a comparison between the depression, anxiety, and stress before and after the
intervention which included 12 sessions, the analysis found that they decreased significantly
throughout the process of practice (P< 0.001) S(Rohani et al., 2018).
In a comparison of the study with other studies, the researchers found that hatha yoga exercises
got proved as intervention methods to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression among pregnant
women.
The study concluded that yoga possesses a useful purpose in a reduction of anxiety, depression,
and stress and can be genuinely considered as complementary medicine. It found that that the use
of yoga reduces the cost of medication and treatment because drugs use is minimized. The study

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recommended future research on the topic to determine the long-term effect of yoga on
depression anxiety and stress.

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References
Shohani, M., Badfar, G., Nasirkandy, M. P., Kaikhavani, S., Rahmati, S., Modmeli, Y., ... &
Azami, M. (2018). The effect of yoga on stress, anxiety, and depression in women.
International journal of preventive medicine, 9.