Effect of yoga on insomnia among nurses at multi speciality health facility, United Arab Emirates
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20242587Keywords:
Insomnia and yoga, NurseAbstract
Background: Insomnia is a communal sleep problem. Nurses are commonly getting this due to their nature of work, family situation and lack of their coping which affect their attention throughout the day. Studies shown that yoga is an olden practice which relaxes the mind and sleep among adults. Yoga brings changes in autonomic nervous system, thus improves functional brain network. However, there are limited studies conducted to understand how the yoga improves nurses sleep. Present study is to find out the effect of yoga on insomnia. This study aimed to assess the effect of Yoga on insomnia among nurses.
Methods: Experimental design was opted for this study. 70 nurses participated in this study from one of the government-multispeciality hospital. Samples were randomly allocated to the experimental and control group. Experimental group underwent yoga for 30 minutes, daily for 90 days. Data was collected through online before and after the intervention from both experimental and control group. The tool used to collect data was Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) scale.
Results: The mean post-test insomnia score among nurses in the test group 20.51 was higher than the post test insomnia score among nurses in the control group which is 15.97 with the t=4.543, df=68 at a level of 5% significance. It shows that there is a significant improvement in the sleep after doing yoga among nurses.
Conclusions: Yoga was very effective in terms of improving the sleep among nurses.
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