A Pilot Study on Effectiveness of Selected ‘Yogasanas with Meditation’ on Concentration and Self Esteem among Adolescents with Poor Scholestic Performance

Background: Today, every fifth person in India is an adolescent (10-19 years). While there are many factors that significantly affect adolescence, once which has been often overlooked is mental health and well-being. Mental health issues constitute a major burden of disease for adolescents globally. It is estimated that one in five adolescents will experience a mental health disorder each year, despite this, adolescent mental health and well-being have often been overlooked in global health programming. Regular yoga practice among adolescents improves the mood and changes how stress, anxiety, and fatigue are perceived. Yoga also helps improve cognitive functioning, especially the individual’s memory, and performance. A 20-minute yoga session every day can improve an adolescent’s performance in tests, in terms of accuracy and speed. Methods: Data is collected from adolescents studying in selected high schools of Bagalkot. Quantitative approach is used. Quasi experimental time series design is used. In the present study population is adolescents, studying in various high schools of Bagalkot district. The investigator has planned a sample size of 200 adolescents, 100 for experimental group and 100 for control group by using academic performance rating scale (APRS). The sample size will be finalized by using power analysis, assuming 5% drop out with 80 % power to detect a difference of 50 % of effect size and, at 5% level of significance. Proportional Stratified Random Sampling Technique is used to select the sample for the present study. Results: Data analysis of pilot study data shows that there was no significant difference between experimental group children and control group children in forms of socio demographic variables and outcome variables at baseline. Hence both the groups were homogeneous at pre interventional level. Pretest mean and SD was 10.3 and 2.58 in experimental group, post mean and SD was 6.8 and 1.93. In control group pretest mean and SD was ...