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Background: The current research is conducted to assess theimpact of mindfulness and yoga in an elementary school onstudent for measuring their quality of life.Materials & Methods: This is a randomized controlled trialwas utilized to assess the impact of yoga and mindfulness onthird to fifth-grade students who screened positive forsymptoms of anxiety.50 Students were selected at a random that was exposed toyoga/mindfulness activities for 18 weeks between October2018 and February 2019. The Baseline student scores beforeand after the mindfulness and yoga were gathered with thehelp of their teachers. The same were analyzed by usingpaired sample t test with SPSS software.Results: Our study showed that the group trained at least 45minutes daily have significantly improved their quality of life (pvalue <0.05). The results suggested that a yoga/mindfulnessintervention improves symptoms of anxiety among students.Conclusion: It facilitates stress management amongelementary school students and may be added as acomplement to social and emotional learning activities.
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Background: Obesity is fast becoming the developed world's greatest health problem. Moreover, childhood obesity is a major public health crisis nationally and internationally. The prevalence of childhood obesity has increased over few years. It is caused by imbalance between calorie intake and calories utilized.Methods: The current paper analyses the impact of Surya Namaskar and Pranayama on management of child obesity. For this purpose, a group of 120 respondents were selected for a 4-month program to measure that whether the program can improve their living standards or not.Results: The result revealed positive impact on the obesity of the participants, further the variables of their medical condition and living standards improvement is identified.Conclusions: One variable Rate_yoga_1 is predicting the Overall_quality of Surya Namaskar and Pranayama. Further, four variables medi_conImp_3, medi_conImp_2, medi_conImp_5 and medi_conImp_4 are predicting the medical condition improvement under session of Surya Namaskar and Pranayama, and two variables Livi_stanimpr_4 and Livi_stanimpr_3 are predicting the living standard improvement under session of Surya Namaskar and Pranayama.