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KMID : 1148220120080040021
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Journal of Arts Psychotherapy
2012 Volume.8 No. 4 p.21 ~ p.50
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A Study on the Effects of a Yoga Program on Improving Mental and Physiological Health of lower income bracket Females
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Lim Sung-Ah
Cheong Kwang-Jo
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Abstract
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In present study, this study was undertaken to investigate the properties of yoga on improvement of mental and physical health on the lower income bracket females. Total 21 of participants undertook the control and yoga therapy intervene once weekly (80 min) for 12 weeks, respectively. For analysis the metal health status, the STAT-1, K-BDI and RESE surveys were obtained from all of participants. The physical health status observations were on the body weights and body mass index (BMI) and the physiological biomarker were on total reactive oxygen species (ROS) and total antioxidant capacity using ferric reducing ability in plasma (FRAP) assay by serum or plasma smaples. The result showed that yoga program significantly attenuated the abnormal ranges of mental health status as normal levels, compared with control group. The physiological bio markers such as ROS and FRAP were also considerably improved in yoga therapy group as compared with control group, but not affected physical health status. In the present study supports that yoga therapy program is suitable to the improvement of mental and physical health on the national basic livelihood security recipients females. Moreover, these results suggested that yoga therapy program could be applied to welfare-program for improving the mental and physiological health status on the lower income bracket females.
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KEYWORD
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Yoga program, Lower Income Bracket, Depression, Antioxidant, Self Esteem
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