American Journal of Advances in Nursing Research

A STUDY TO ASSESS KNOWLEDGE REGARDING BENEFITS OF YOGA AMONG STUDENTS OF SELECTED INTER JUNIOR COLLEGE AT HYDERABAD

S. Radha Ramana Sree

radha_ramanasree@yahoo.com

Yoga practices, Benefits of Yoga, Students.

Yoga practices has the general aim of facilitating the development and integration of the body, mind and breath to produce structural, physiological and psychological benefits specifically, Objectives: To assess the knowledge regarding benefits yoga among inter junior college students and to determine the association between knowledge score of inter junior college students with the selected demographic variables. The investigator explained the purpose of study and obtained consent before administrating the structured questionnaire to the students in selected Inter college at Hyderabad on the day of data collection. The duration of the pilot study was one week from 28.08.2015 to 01.09.2015. After obtaining content validity from experts, the pilot study was conducted in college. The purpose of pilot study was to determine the feasibility of the main study and to refine modified tool. Pilot study was conducted among students who are selected by convenience sampling technique. Reliability of the tool was tested with the help of split half method. During the pilot study the practicability feasibility was checked. No modifications was made in the tool and the tool was found to be feasibility to conduct the main study. After obtaining consent from Inter college students, data collection was done by using questionnaire method to assess the knowledge regarding benefits of yoga among Inter Junior college students. It took 30 minutes to complete the questionnaire by each inter junior college students. The sample size was 30 students and non probability convenience sampling techniques was used for selection of subjects for the study. Structured questionnaire was adopted to collect the data. The data was collected from students for about 30 minutes. Finally the data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings of the study showed that among 30 students studying in inter junior college students at Hyderabad. Majority of respondents 26 had moderate knowledge regarding benefits of yoga.