A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Pranayama on Stress Management among Staff Nurses in Selected Settings at Jaipur

A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Pranayama on Stress Management among Staff Nurses in Selected Settings at Jaipur - Introduction: Stress from many sources has been reported for some time by student nurses. The sources are like academic sources, parental expectations, and competition for grades, relationships and career choices.1 Academic sources of stress like examinations, long hours of study, assignments and grades, lack of free time, and lack of timely feedback after their performance, special elements of the academic programme like arrangement and conduction of workshops, also produce stress among student nurses. And also clinical sources of stress like while taking care of critically ill patients, interpersonal conflict with peer group, insecurity about personal clinical competence, fear related to complete their clinical requirements, dealing with uncooperative patients, work overload, prolonged standing, learning psychomotor skills, e.g. administering injections and performing catheterization, have also been associated with high levels of stress.2 In addition, stress leads to psychological morbidity which may have profound adverse consequences for individual nursing students.3 Nursing student’s experiences of their clinical practice provide greater insight to deelop an effective clinical teaching strategy in nursing education. They experienced stress as a result of feeling incompetent and lack of professional nursing skills and knowledge to take care of various patients in the clinical setting.4 There are numerous stressors for the students to develop stress in nursing education like, using critical thinking skills during their written examination.5 When compared with general student population the nursing students perceive more stress.6 Design: One group pretest posttest, pre experimental design was selected for the study. Subjects: The participants were 60 staff nurses from selected hospitals at Jaipur. Methods: Purposive sampling technique was used for the present study. Data collection tool: A stress rating scale was used to collect data from the themes. Data analysis: The obtained data was analysed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Frequency, percentage, means, and variance was used to explain socio-demographic variables and to assess the extent the extent of stress. The extent of significance was set at 0.05 levels. Results: within the pre intervention stage, the subject had mild stress with a mean of fifty .6±.7.9, whereas in post intervention, there was an enormous mean stress reduction/management of 31.0±9.1. An enormous association was found between age, gender, status, transportation facilities, awareness of pranayama and source of knowledge and mean pre intervention stress score. Conclusion: In pre intervention, 46.7% of the themes had moderate stress whereas in post intervention all the themes had only mild stress. The study findings indicate that the pranayama program was effective for stress reduction/management among staff nurses. Keywords: Pranayama, Stress, Staff nurses.