The Effect of Yoga and Breathing Practices on the Quality of Life of Elders
Project no. 31956 · Status: Kapanmış (Yayın bekleniyor) · 2024
Summary
<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>It is known that physical and mental exercises are important in maintaining health and improving quality of life in old age. Yoga has a different meaning for everyone and has no boundaries to define. Within the scope of the doctoral thesis, it is aimed to search the effects of yoga and breathing practices on the quality of life.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study was conducted with 25 students aged 60 and over in the Ege U3A, which has been carried out since 2016<strong>. </strong>In the study, chair yoga and breathing exercises conducted with the instructor via online meetings, twice a week for a total of five weeks. In this single-group, quasi-experimental study, parameters such as quality of life, belief in yoga, and the transformative effect of yoga were examined with pre-test and post-test applications. Within the scope of this method a personal information form, the Yoga Belief Scale, Quality of Life Scale in Older People (CASP-19), and the Yoga Self-Efficacy Scale (YDEO) were used. The data were analyzed using the SPSS Statistics for Windows 25.0.</p><p><strong>Results</strong>: When the comparison of YDEO pre-test and post-test scores is examined; it is seen that there is a statistically significant difference between the participants' body-breath-mind dimension Similarly, when the pre-test and post-test scores of the CASP-19 were compared, it was seen that there was a statistically significant difference between the participants' autonomy and satisfaction perception dimension, obstacle perception dimension, and pre-test and post-test scores of the Quality of Life Scale in Older People.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Old Age; Quality of Life; Self-Efficacy; Yoga; Breath</p>