In 2012, Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) conducted a study to determine embodied health effect on medical students (Bold el al., 2013). What they wanted to see through this experiment was improvement of empathy, self-compassion, self-regulation, well-being and reducing stress in medical students. Twenty seven first and second year medical students at BUSM participated in this study. They learned an hour long yoga posture (asana), meditation (dhanyas) and breathing techniques (pranayama and ujjayi) once weekly for eleven weeks during the semester with extra thirty minute lecture about the neuroscience of yoga, relaxation and breathing exercises. This study collected data by using an online survey with students who participated in
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Shapiro, Astin, Bishop and Cordova said that conducted a study to demonstrate on healthcare professional, and confirm the value of mindfulness –based stress reduction (MBSR) for medical students (Shapiro, Astin, Bishop, & Cordova, 2005). This study designed by compression condition between experimental group and control group for an eight week of period. In addition, wait-list control group received after the experimental group completed eight week of the intervention (Shapiro et al, 2005). First, experimental group of healthcare professionals learned two hours long MBSR practice once weekly for eight weeks, MBSR consisted of meditation, hatha yoga and three minute breathing space (Shapiro et al, 2005). Shapiro et al. measured the baseline and after intervention for both groups, by using a Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) and Self-Compassion Scale (SCS). However, this result not included that control group post intervention score. For the result of study, as …show more content…
A study performed by Vidyashree, Patill, Moodnur and Singh conducted to comparison of sleep quality between medical and yogic students to see effect of yoga on sleep quality (Vidyashree, Patill, Moodnur & Singh, 2013). Thirty first year medical students and thirty second year yogic students who are normal health aged between 18-23 years participated in this experiment. This study collected data in two groups by using a standardized questionnaire on sleep pattern, Epworth sleepiness scale score and Pittsburgh sleep quality index (Vidyashree et al., 2013). This study showed that in day time sleepiness and sleep latency much lower in yogic students compared with medical students. Compared with medical students, yogic students had higher score in freshness after sleep in the mooring (Vidyashree et al., 2013). In the result of this study, yogic students had a better quality of sleep than medical students. Therefore, this study support that yoga can improvement of sleep quality by reducing sleepiness in the daytime and poor sleep pattern on medical
Shapiro, Astin, Bishop and Cordova said that conducted a study to demonstrate on healthcare professional, and confirm the value of mindfulness –based stress reduction (MBSR) for medical students (Shapiro, Astin, Bishop, & Cordova, 2005). This study designed by compression condition between experimental group and control group for an eight week of period. In addition, wait-list control group received after the experimental group completed eight week of the intervention (Shapiro et al, 2005). First, experimental group of healthcare professionals learned two hours long MBSR practice once weekly for eight weeks, MBSR consisted of meditation, hatha yoga and three minute breathing space (Shapiro et al, 2005). Shapiro et al. measured the baseline and after intervention for both groups, by using a Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) and Self-Compassion Scale (SCS). However, this result not included that control group post intervention score. For the result of study, as …show more content…
A study performed by Vidyashree, Patill, Moodnur and Singh conducted to comparison of sleep quality between medical and yogic students to see effect of yoga on sleep quality (Vidyashree, Patill, Moodnur & Singh, 2013). Thirty first year medical students and thirty second year yogic students who are normal health aged between 18-23 years participated in this experiment. This study collected data in two groups by using a standardized questionnaire on sleep pattern, Epworth sleepiness scale score and Pittsburgh sleep quality index (Vidyashree et al., 2013). This study showed that in day time sleepiness and sleep latency much lower in yogic students compared with medical students. Compared with medical students, yogic students had higher score in freshness after sleep in the mooring (Vidyashree et al., 2013). In the result of this study, yogic students had a better quality of sleep than medical students. Therefore, this study support that yoga can improvement of sleep quality by reducing sleepiness in the daytime and poor sleep pattern on medical