A descriptive study to assess knowledge regarding yoga &meditation and its effects on mental health among nursing students in selected college , Kanpur up.

Yoga &Meditation is the basic spiritual practice for quieting the mind and getting in touch with our deeper self, the spirit. Yoga &Meditation provides a deeper appreciation of the interrelatedness of all things and the part each person plays. . Meditation enhances your insight, reveals your true nature, and brings your inner peace. Yoga &Meditation has a long history of use for increasing calmness and physical relaxation improving psychological balance, coping with illness, and enhancing overall health and wellbeing. Keeping this in view researcher justified the need to assess knowledge of meditation and its effects on physiotherapy students with view to develop and distribute pamphlet on meditation. A quantitative research approach and descriptive research design was used to research settingwas in selected college Kanpur (bhawanipurKanpur UP) total 100 nursing students were selected with purposive sampling technique. Written consent was taken from the nursing students who were selected as sample. Self-structured knowledge questionnaire containing 30 questions was used to evaluate the knowledge of yoga &meditation and its effects regarding meditation.