| Comparison of premenstrual syndrome outbreak, life quality and sleeping quality between yoga athletic women and their inactive peers |
| Paper ID : 1305-SSRC-13TH |
| Authors |
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Sara Mirali *1, Behnaz Ganji2, Mohammadhossein Nasermelli2 1آسیب شناسی و حرکات اصلاحی، دانشکده تربیت بدنی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد کرج، کرج، ایران. 2گروه آسیب شناسی و حرکات اصلاحی، دانشکده تربیت بدنی، دانشگاه ازاد اسلامی واحد کرج، کرج، ایران. |
| Abstract |
| The aim of this study was to compare the prevalence of premenstrual syndrome, quality of life and quality of sleep in women yoga athletes with non athlete counterparts. The statistical population of this study were girls and women athletes who practiced yoga continuously for at least 1 year and non-athletes who did not have any continuous sports activities in the past year were in Karaj city, of which 120 were as a statistical sample. They were selected randomly, purposefully and based on inclusion criteria That Yoga group with an average height of 167.12 ± 6.13, weight 72.19 ± 2.74 and age 29.17 ± 1.23 and non-athlete with an average height of 166.38 ± 7.54, weight 74.33 ± 2.38 and age 31.46 ± 1.58 Were. In a briefing session, they were introduced to the research, its purpose, their role in the research, and other related issues. After filling out the informed consent form and personal information form, the premenstrual syndrome symptom screening questionnaire, the quality of life questionnaire and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Questionnaire were provided to individuals. After completing three questionnaires by female yoga athletes, these three questionnaires were given to 60 women who are in the non-athlete group and consist of a group of inactive counterparts. And by examining the results obtained from the questionnaires between the two groups of female yoga athletes and inactive counterparts, the predictor variables in this study were the prevalence of premenstrual syndrome, quality of life and quality of sleep. After statistical analysis and using the Human Whitney test for intergroup comparison, at the level of alpha five percent of the research hypotheses were tested using statistical software version 21 and the following results were obtained: There is a significant difference between the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome between female yoga athletes and their non-athlete counterparts. There is a significant difference between the quality of life between female yoga athletes and female non-athlete counterparts. Also, there is significant difference between sleep quality between female yoga athletes and female non-athlete counterparts. |
| Keywords |
| premenstrual syndrome, quality of life, quality of sleep, yoga, athletes and non athlete women |
| Status: Abstract Accepted (Poster Presentation) |
