EFFECT OF KAPALBHATI IN DIFFERENT TIME DURATIONS ON BREATH HOLDING CAPACITY AND STRESS AMONG SCHOOL GIRLS

Abstract

The objective of the study was to investigate the effect of Kapalbhati with different time duration on breath holding capacity and stress among school girls. Another objective of the study was to improve Breath Holding Capacity And Stress in school girls. Method:- To achieve the objective of this study 60 girls aged 15-18 years were randomly selected from Mount Carmel School, Muradnagar, Ghaziabad (UP). After that all the subjects were divided equally into four groups (three experimental groups and one control group). Subjects of three experimental groups were given Kapalabhati training program at different times for a period of 8 weeks and the control group was not given any kind of training. The selected variables to be compared were breath holding capacity and stress To measure Breath Holding Capacity among deferent groups, Manually was used. To measure stress among deferent groups, Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) was developed by S. Levenstein, C. Prantera, V. Varvo, M. L. Scribano . statistical techniques:- ancova was used to find out the effect of kapalabhati with differernt time duration on breath holding capacity and stress among school girls. The level of significance was set at 0.05 to test the hypothesis. results and discussion:- the results revealed that there were significant (p>.05) differences in the effect of kapalabhati on all physiological variables keywords:- kapalbhati, breath holding capacity and stress