Effectiveness of Yoga Therapy on the Well Being of Hypertensive Women residing at Dooming Kuppam in Chennai

INTRODUCTION: Hypertension is a major Chronic life style disease and an important public health problem. Recent report indicates that approximately 1 billion people world wide have high blood pressure and this number is expected to increase to 1.56 billion people by the year 2025. Well being is a concept that combines individual’s health, quality of life and their satisfaction. The well ness education teaches health way and include topics as physical awareness yoga therapy is a low cost, non pharmacological yoga therapy is very simple of the physical exercise. It is emphasized in the home setup with the daily activities to decrease the blood pressure and to avoid blood pressure related complication. AIM OF THE STUDY: 1. To assess the pretest and post test level of well being among the experimental and control group of women. 2. To determine the effectiveness of yoga therapy on level of well being among experimental group. 3. To associate between the well being of the hypertensive women. METHODOLOGY: A quasi experimental study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of yoga therapy on the well being of hypertensive women residing of dooming kuppam in Chennai – 4. Sample were selected by non probability convenient sampling as per the inclusive criteria. The data was collected using a structured questionnaire by the investigator and analysed using mean, standard deviation, Independent t test and chi-square. RESULT: In the (T=60) experimental group (N= 30), the pretest mean score of well being was 57.67 with standard deviation 4.38 and the post test mean score of well being was 78.40 with standard deviation. 10.48. The calculated "t" value of 10.701 was statistically highly significant at P