Impact of Yogic Intervention on the Well Being of HIV Affected Adolescents

Abstract

              The present pretest and post test experimental design was designed to find out the effect of yoga therapy on psychological well being among HIV affected adolescents. It was hypothesized that there would be significant difference due to the effect of yogic practices on psychological well being among HIV affected adolescents. To achieve the purpose of the study 26 boys were having HIV staying at child care center in Puducherry city aged between 13 to 19 selected underwent for yoga practices for twelve weeks, five days for a week for a maximum of one hour in the evening, the consent from the authority and the individual has received after explaining the procedure of the study, the pretest and post test were conducted before and after the training for two group. The psychological well being was measured by Adolescent Wellbeing scale devised by Birleson. The data collected from the groups before and after the training period were statistically analyzed by using computer/SPSS and interpreted. The‘t’ test was carried out to determine the significance difference and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the study was showed that the psychological well being level was significantly increased as the result of the yogic practices; hence the hypothesis was accepted at 0.05 level of confidence. The conclusion was that the yogic practices helped to increase the level of psychological well being among HIV affected adolescents.