A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Sudarshan Kriya Yoga on Academic Stress among B.Sc Nursing Students,at Selected Nursing Colleges, Bangalore, Karnataka

Stress is an endemic problem. Its presents in each stage of human life. It may be eustress which motivate the human beings and distress which produce negative effects to the people. Every child spending around four developmental stages in educational institutions that is from toddler period to early adult stage for finishing up of their higher degree courses. Everyone adolescent having their own goals to achieve the higher carrier job. Especially in college level students are getting more stress related to studies because after that, they must enter in job to earn money or huge college fees and parents couldn’t be able to pay the fees or their medium of education they studied in college level. so many causes are producing stress to the college students that leads to low academic performance. Complementary and alternative medicines have been practised thousands of years by many people. Sudarshan kriya is a type of simple breathing technique which reduce stress, anxiety, and improve attention & concentration and mental well-being of people. This study had done for the benefit of students as they will get relax from their academic stress and enhance their academic performance. The major objective of the study is, Assess the Effectiveness of Sudarshan Kriya on Academic Stress among B.Sc nursing 1st year students. The research design is adopted in this study is quasi experimental one group pre-test post-test design. 60 samples were selected by purposive sampling technique and data were collected with the use of Academic Stress Scale. The findings of the study shows that the mean and standard deviation value for pre-test 3.8 &.68 and post-test mean and Standard Deviation is 1.75&.7 and the “t” test value 4.5 which is highly significant at p<0.05. Results: The study conclude that Sudarshan kriya is effective for reduce the academic stress and improve mental relaxation to the students.