Effect of Integrated Approach of Yoga Therapy for Premenopausal Women with Mastalgia

Abstract

Mastalgia is a common breast disorder with highly variable prevalence estimates ranging newlinefrom 41% to 79%. It is important to study its high prevalence and its potential to become newlinebenign to malignant. newlineThe prevalence in young women is unknown, but it is more than 50% of women of newlinereproductive age. Therefore, identifying and treating young women with mastalgia is of newlineprime importance. To the best of our knowledge, there are no published studies on the newlineprevalence of mastalgia with or without fibrocystic disease in young Indian women.. Hence newlinethe present study was undertaken to estimate the prevalence of mastalgia among young newlineIndian women. newlineUsage of drugs has shown to have several side effects. Yoga being one of the mind, body newlineinterventions have shown beneficial effects in reducing pain, stress and depression, thereby newlineimproving quality of life in many other conditions but there are no studies on yoga in Indian newlineadults with mastalgia. newlineObjectives: (1) to look at the prevalence of mastalgia among nursing students,(2) to assess newlinethe benefits of integrated yoga in nursing students with mastalgia through an RCT. newlineMethods: The prevalence study was carried out on 748 young females between 18 to 29 newlineyears of age in residential nursing colleges of Bengaluru rural and Ramanagaram district, newlineSouth India, by administering a specific breast history checklist prepared for the purpose. newlineFor the interventional study, 80 young female nursing students from 2 residential nursing newlinecolleges of Bengaluru rural and Ramanagaram district, South India, who satisfied the newlineselection criteria and consented to participate in the study were randomized into yoga or newlinecontrol groups( 40 each).yoga group practiced specific integrated yoga one hour in daily newlineclasses supervised by a post graduate yoga therapist, and the control( 6 days/week) in their newlinehostel, for three months ; control group practiced supervised walking for one hour daily for newline3 months.