Yoga as a complementary tool in health promotion: A scoping review
Mandpe, Rupali (2021)
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2021
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2021102318865
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2021102318865
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Yoga is a way of life to evaluate its practitioner's physical, mental, moral, and spiritual progress (Sadhakas 1995). Yoga's influence on health and the quality of life has only recently started being studied during the last few decades.
This study aims to gather information on how yoga can be used as a complementary tool in health promotion together with primary care, thus optimizing patients' healthcare experience and health-related quality of life. The study accesses the benefits of yoga on health-related quality of life. It can guide nurses to understand the concepts and implement these practices when needed for personal benefits and with conventional primary care to enhance an individual's quality of life holistically. The study seeks to find answers to research questions 1. what are the benefits of yoga practices and their influence on health-related quality of life? 2. Can yoga be used as a complementary tool in health promotion together with primary care? Coleen Saylor's The Circle of Health, A health Definition Model, is used as a theoretical framework. Scoping review research method is used wherein fifteen (15) articles were reviewed and are summarized in four (4) themes giving answers to research questions.
The study results show a positive relation between yoga and the physical, mental, emotional well-being of an individual, which eventually improves health-related quality of life. Given the potential physical and mental benefits of yoga, it seems possible to use it as a complementary tool in health promotion. This study could not provide results of the perception of Finnish society towards yoga. Future research should attempt to measure this perception and how yoga concepts are practiced and interpreted in Finland.
This study aims to gather information on how yoga can be used as a complementary tool in health promotion together with primary care, thus optimizing patients' healthcare experience and health-related quality of life. The study accesses the benefits of yoga on health-related quality of life. It can guide nurses to understand the concepts and implement these practices when needed for personal benefits and with conventional primary care to enhance an individual's quality of life holistically. The study seeks to find answers to research questions 1. what are the benefits of yoga practices and their influence on health-related quality of life? 2. Can yoga be used as a complementary tool in health promotion together with primary care? Coleen Saylor's The Circle of Health, A health Definition Model, is used as a theoretical framework. Scoping review research method is used wherein fifteen (15) articles were reviewed and are summarized in four (4) themes giving answers to research questions.
The study results show a positive relation between yoga and the physical, mental, emotional well-being of an individual, which eventually improves health-related quality of life. Given the potential physical and mental benefits of yoga, it seems possible to use it as a complementary tool in health promotion. This study could not provide results of the perception of Finnish society towards yoga. Future research should attempt to measure this perception and how yoga concepts are practiced and interpreted in Finland.