A descriptive study to assess the knowledge regarding meditation and it's effect on mental health among physiotherapy students in selected college of kanpur

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Meditation is the basic spiritual practice for quieting the mind and getting in touch with our deeper self, the spirit. Meditation provides a deeper appreciation of the interrelatedness of all things and the part each person plays. 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. Therefore the study titled. “A descriptive study to assess knowledge regarding meditation and its effects on mental health among physiotherapy students in selected college Kanpur. A quantitative research approach and descriptive research design was used. Research setting was in selected college Kanpur (Chaubepur Kanpur UP) total 100 physiotherapy students were selected with purposive sampling technique. Self-structured knowledge questionnaire containing 30 questions was used to evaluate the knowledge of meditation and its effects regarding meditation. Results depicted that means knowledge score of physiotherapy students was 17.75 ± 0.40. This means score was statistically significant at P<0.05 level. Hence it was inferred that physiotherapy students had average knowledge regarding meditation and its effects.

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