Key result
A 5-month meditation training program significantly reduced visual reaction time for green light in the right eye from 0.265 to 0.248 seconds (p<0.0001) in healthy medical students.
Why the study?
Stress and an unhealthy lifestyle impair cognitive and sensory-motor performance, prompting this evaluation of meditation effects on visual reaction time.
Does meditation training improve visual reaction time in undergraduate medical students?
Does meditation training improve visual reaction time in undergraduate medical students?
Absolute Event Rate: 0.248% vs 0.265%
p-value: p=<0.0001
Meditation and deep breathing techniques can significantly improve visual reaction time and alertness in young medical students.
Meditation may shorten visual reaction time in students; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized trials before clinical consideration.
Stress and unhealthy lifestyle are the major and important risk factors for the development of comorbidities and impairment in the cognitive as well as sensory- motor performance. To study the effect of meditation on Visual Reaction Time in undergraduate medical students. Total 100 first MBBS students of Medical College in age group 18-25 years were included. Written informed consent was taken from all the participants before the study. Visual Reaction Time of all students for Green and Red colour stimuli was recorded before and after the mediation training program. The meditation training program was conducted by expert yoga trainer for consecutive 5 months, preferably on empty stomach, without disturbing their teaching schedule. There was a significant difference between VRT recorded before and after the meditation training with P<0.0001**. It indicates that meditation has very positive effect on improving the individuals sensory motor co-ordination. Yoga training with particular emphasis on meditation and deep breathing techniques, can be used as an important and cost-effective tool for improving and increasing the level of alertness.
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Desai et al. (2020) studied Healthy (n=100). Meditation training program vs. Baseline (pre-training) was evaluated on Visual Reaction Time (Green light) for right eye (seconds) (p=<0.0001). A 5-month meditation training program significantly reduced visual reaction time for green light in the right eye from 0.265 to 0.248 seconds (p<0.0001) in healthy medical students.
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