Safe Use of Screen Time Among Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Study of the Efficacy of Yoga.

Background: For students between the ages of 11 and 18, the estimated daily exposure to electronic media is around 1.5 hours, suggesting a growing trend in the amount of time spent in front of a screen. Increasing screen time use is related to sleep, mental health, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral disorders, unhealthy diets, depressive symptoms, poor quality of life, and substance-behavioral addictions.

Study Protocol for Mindfulness-Based Yoga Versus Physical Exercise on the Psychological Well-Being in Students With Early Visual Impairment: A Three-Armed, Multi-Centered, Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background People with visual impairment (VI) tend to face more psychological distress than normally sighted individuals due to mobility restrictions, fear of falling, and sleep disturbances. However, research to address these problems is rare. This study aims to investigate the effect of mindfulness-based yoga versus physical exercise on the psychological well-being of individuals with VI.

The Pregnancy Tele-yoga Module to Combat Stress, Anxiety, and Depression Associated with Pregnancy: An Exploratory Open-label Multicentric Study.

Purpose: Untreated stress, anxiety, and depression during the perinatal period can lead to adverse maternal and infant outcomes. Yoga, the practice of body-mind-spirit techniques has been shown to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression.

Aims: The aim of the study was to examine the feasibility and limited efficacy of the 4-week practice of pregnancy tele-yoga module (PTYM) delivered and monitored through an online platform.

Challenges faced in diabetes risk prediction among an indigenous South Asian population in India using the Indian Diabetes Risk Score.

Objectives: Indigenous populations around the world have a higher health disparity and an increased risk of diabetes. Scientific literature on the prevalence of diabetes in India is not available, and the current work is a pilot study to explore the risk of diabetes in one such indigenous population in India.

Study Design: This is a cross-sectional survey and screening study.

Immediate effect of mind sound resonance technique on state anxiety and cognitive functions in patients suffering from generalized anxiety disorder: A self-controlled pilot study.

Objectives: To compare the immediate effect of mind sound resonance technique (MSRT) with supine rest (SR) on state anxiety and psychomotor performance in 15 (eight male and seven female) right-handed generalized anxiety disorder patients (GAD) with an age range of 34.8 ± 12.8 years.

Schizophrenia Patient or Spiritually Advanced Personality? A Qualitative Case Analysis.

Many aspects of spiritual experience are similar in form and content to symptoms of psychosis. Both spiritually advanced people and patients suffering from psychopathology experience alterations in their sense of 'self.' Psychotic experiences originate from derangement of the personality, whereas spiritual experiences involve systematic thinning out of the selfish ego, allowing individual consciousness to merge into universal consciousness.

Ancient science of yogic life for academic excellence in university students.

Background: Academic excellence is essential to provide opportunities for students to work together to improve their understanding of concepts in their academic core. Academic excellence helps students to teach problem-solving and collaborative learning strategies.

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess Guna (personality traits) in students undergoing Yoga Instructor's Course (YIC).

Yoga therapy for developing emotional intelligence in mid-life managers.

Background: Business executives' lives have become a never-ending race against time, technology, and targets. This race creates tension, which leads to dissatisfaction and frustration and eventually manifests itself as psychological and physiological stress with mental and emotional drain. This modern lifestyle intensifies the stress leading to "excessive tension" and consequent deterioration in "executive efficiency".