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“A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRANIC
HEALING (EXERCISES AND MEDITATION) ON HYPERTENSIVE PEOPLE IN SELECTED
AREAS OF RAICHUR”
PROFORMA FOR REGISTRATION OF SUBJECTS
FOR DISSERTATION
DENI DANIEL
NAVODAYA COLLEGE OF NURSING
RAICHUR
MAY -2011
RAJIV GANDHI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCESBANGALORE, KARNATAKA
PROFORMA FOR REGISTRATION OF SUBJECTS FOR DESSERTATION
1. Name of the candidate : Ms DENI DANIELand address M.Sc Nursing Ist Year,
Navodaya College of Nursing, Mantralayam Road, Raichur – 584103.
2. Name of the Institution : Navodaya College of Nursing Raichur
3. Course of study : M.Sc Nursing Ist Yearand subject Medical and Surgical Nursing
4. Date of admission in to : 20 – 10 - 2010the course
5. Title of the Topic :
“A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRANIC HEALING (EXERCISES AND MEDITATION) ON
HYPERTENSIVE PEOPLE IN SELECTED AREAS OF RAICHUR”
6. BRIEF RESUME OF THE INTENDED WORK:
6.1 NEED FOR THE STUDY.
“The heart speaks from the vessels of every limb”.
……Ebers Papyrus.
Hypertension is one of the leading causes of death all over the world.
It is the term used to describe high blood pressure. Blood pressure is a
measurement of the force against the walls of your blood vessels as the
heart pumps blood through the body. When it’s too high, it raises the
heart’s workload and can cause serious damage to the arteries. Over time,
uncontrolled high blood pressure increases the risk of heart disease,
stroke, and kidney disease1.
High blood pressure is sometimes called a silent killer because it
may have no outward symptoms for years. Normal blood pressure
readings will fall 120/80mmHg. One will have high blood pressure if
reading is average 140/90mmHg or higher2.
Over 70% of cases of high blood pressure are related to emotional
problems arising out of stress. It is capable of causing great damage and
extreme physical suffering. Usually when an individual faces stressful
situation his body responds in a peculiar fashion. It begins to tense up and
the blood begins to rush to brain. This causes blood pressure to rise. It can
range from a feeling of unease at its mildest to a panic attack at the most
severe end of the spectrum3.
Epidemiological studies demonstrate that prevalence of
hypertension is increasing rapidly among Indian urban populations and
using the current definitions more than two-fifth of the Indian urban
population has hypertension. Hypertension is readily responsible for 57%
of all stroke deaths and 24% of all coronary heart disease deaths. This
fact assumes importance because hypertension is a controllable disease
and a 2mmHg population wide decrease in blood pressure can prevent
1, 51,000 stroke and 1, 53,000 coronary heart disease death4.
The overall incidence of hypertension in India is estimated to be
66 million. At a conservative estimate there are 42 million hypertensive
in rural and 45 millions in urban population4.
It has been acknowledged that religious and complementary
therapies are commonly used in community settings in India. The human
magnet through its vital energy can be affected and get affected by
others5.
Pranic Healing is an ancient science and art of healing using vital
energy or 'Prana'. This Prana keeps the body alive and healthy function
properly. The term "Pranic" originates from the Sanskrit word "Prana",
which denotes Pranic healing is a simple, yet powerful and effective no-
touch, no drug healing therapy. Only prana or energy is used to heal a
person. This method of healing was prevalent in ancient India, China &
Egypt6.
The Pranic Healer works on the energy body that surrounds and
interpenetrates the physical body, called the Aura. Pranic Healing uses
the Auric & chakra energies for both diagnosis and for healing. Healing is
accomplished by removing diseased energy from the patient’s energy
body and by transferring fresh energy to the affected areas. Pranic
Healing acts as a powerful catalyst to accelerate the body’s natural
healing process. It is so simple and natural, that virtually nothing can go
wrong, and when done systematically and properly, there are no chances
of any adverse side effects. Despite its miraculous healing effects, Pranic
Healing is not intended to replace orthodox/allopathic medicine, but
rather to compliment i.e. vital energy or life force that keeps the body
alive and healthy6.
A multitude of factors play a role both in the maintenance of blood
pressure and also in the production of hypertension. Some of the well
known factors are the barn-receptor reflex, sympathetic and
parasympathetic tone, rennin-angiotensin, aldosterone system,
psychogenic factors, shift in the renal functioning, salt intake etc7.
Pranic healing induces a relaxed state. This in turn will reduce the
sympathetic tone. So any vasoconstriction produced due to an increase in
sympathetic tone would be abolished due to pranic healing. Proper
balance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic tone could be
brought about, resulting in the reduction in blood pressure7.
In case of high Blood pressure the solar plexus and meng mein
energy centre which is located backside of navel are malfunctioning.
These energy centers are filled with used up energy. During a Pranic
healing session a healer carefully removes the used up energy from
affected energy centers and flicks them into a salt water solution. This is
termed as cleansing procedure. Salt has a capacity to disintegrate the
negative energy and water has a capacity to withhold the energy.
Therefore when a healer uses salt solution he disintegrates the negative
energy logged in the energy centre. It can be studied further and be useful
as a new and non-pharmacological approach to the healthy life8.
Hence, the researcher felt the need to assess the effectiveness of
pranic healing on the hypertensive people in selected areas of Raichur.
6.2 REVIEW OF LITERATURE:
A review of literature on the research topic makes the researcher
familiar with the existing studies and provides information which helps to
focus on a particular problem, lays a foundation upon which to base a
new knowledge. It creates accurate picture of the information found on
the subject.
A comparative study was conducted to determine the impact of
Pranic Healing on blood pressure among adults in selected hospitals at
Bangalore. Two groups consisted of 19 normal elderly people and
hypertensive people (already on treatment) were chosen for the study by
convenient sampling. Both groups were made to undergo Pranic Healing
on alternate days. The blood pressure and pulse rate of both the groups
were recorded before and after the commencement of healing. The results
of the study showed the average blood pressure of Group I was found to
be 149/85 mmHg before healing and 139/84 mmHg after healing whereas
that of Group II was found to be 156/95 mmHg before and 123/75 after
healing. The pulse rates were found to be 77 and 74 in groups I and II
respectively before healing and it was 74 and 75 after healing. The study
concluded that there was a reduction in diastolic and systolic scores with
pranic healing on patients9.
An experimental study was conducted to determine the
effectiveness of a yoga program on blood pressure and stress; a group of
hypertensive patients in Thailand were studied. The study concluded that
there was a significant decrease in mean stress scores and blood pressure,
heart rate, and mass index levels on patients10.
A comparative study was conducted to determine the impact of
mind body therapies (meditation, yoga and guided imagery techniques)
versus placebo in the treatment of hypertension among men and non-
pregnant women ( greater than 18 years of age). The study concluded that
mind-body therapies significantly reduced systolic blood pressure (SBP)
by a mean 11.52 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) by
6.83mmHg in the patients11.
An experimental study conducted at the University of Kentucky,
Lexington, united state, involving nine randomly selected hypertensive
patients proved that apart from having no side effects, the effects of
meditation on blood pressure lasted four months after the test. The kind
of meditation used to achieve these results was transcendental meditation.
It resulted in an approximate reduction of 4.7 mm systolic blood pressure
and 3.2 mm diastolic blood pressure12.
An experimental study was conducted to determine the impact of
pranic healing on the blood pressure and alpha EEG waves in human
volunteers attended shantikunj and Dev Sanskrit vishwavidayalaya,
Hardwar, Uttaranchal, India. They have taken 25 subjects, selected by
incidental sampling. Two tools were applied: first Alpha EEG
Biofeedback Instrument and second Blood Pressure Measurement
(Sphygmomanometer). The systolic Blood Pressure pre-test mean score
was 138.96 ± 11.50 mmHg and post-test mean score was 128.4 ±6.89 mm
Hg. T-test score was 7.18. Diastolic Blood Pressure pre-test score mean
was 93.92 ± 10.27 mm Hg and post-test score mean was 85.84 ± 7.06 mm
Hg, T-test score was 6.90. The pre-test mean score of alpha waves was
4.73 ± 2.16 Hz. and post-test mean score found 6.00 ± 2.44 Hz., T-test
score was 3.52 . The result was there were significant decrease in
diastolic and systolic blood pressure and increase in alpha waves with
pranic healing13.
An experimental study was conducted using randomized controlled
trials of aerobic or resistance exercise training conducted over a minimum
of 4 weeks where systolic and diastolic BP was measured among
hypertensive and normotensive participants. A total of 29 studies (1533
hypertensive and normotensive participants) were included, 26 used
aerobic exercise training, two trials used resistance training and one study
had both resistance and aerobic training groups. Aerobic exercise training
reduced systolic BP by 4.7 mmHg and diastolic BP by 3.1 mmHg. The
result was aerobic exercise training had a small but clinically significant
effect in reducing systolic and diastolic blood pressure14.
6.3. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM:
“A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of pranic healing (exercises and
meditation) on hypertensive people in the selected areas of Raichur”.
6.4 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:
1. To assess the level of the blood pressure before the pranic
healing exercise.
2. To assess the effectiveness of pranic healing in reducing
blood pressure.
6.5 OPERATIONAL DEFINITIONS:
Effectiveness: Effectiveness is the extent to which the pranic healing has
reduced the hypertension among hypertensive people.
Blood pressure: Blood pressure is a measurement of the force against
the walls of your blood vessels as the heart pumps blood through the
body.
Pranic healing: Pranic healing is a science and art of healing that treats
the energy body, which interpenetrates and controls the physical body,
mind and emotions. It includes Exercise and Meditation.
Exercise ; it is a form of bodily movement that the patient performs
by voluntary contraction and relaxation of muscles and Meditation is a
systematic mental focus on particular aspects of inner or outer experience
involving engaging in an activity that directs the mind to single point of
focus , using breathing techniques, or imagery in order to feel a state of
calmness.
Hypertensive people: It refers to the people with hypertension between
the ages of 40 - 60 years.
6.6 HYPOTHESIS:
On the basis of the objectives of the study the following hypothesis
have been formulated:
H1: There will be a significant difference between pre-checked and
post-checked blood pressure level among hypertensive people with pranic
healing in reducing hypertension.
H2: There will be a significant association between post checked
hypertension and selected demographic variables.
7. MATERIALS AND METHODS:
7.1 SOURCE OF DATA:
Design:
The design of the study is the true experimental.
R 01 X O2
R O1 O2
R – Randomization
O1 – pretest
X – Intervention ( Pranic Healing )
O2 – posttest
Setting of the study:
Raichur is one of the Backward District situated in the North-
Eastern Karnataka. It has an area of 6,839 sq.km and comprises of 5
towns, 830 villages and 35 wards. The study will be conducted at
Zaheerabad area, an urban slum area of Raichur with the population of
16,82,212.
Population:
The population for the study comprises of people with
hypertension who are residing in selected areas of Raichur.
Sample size:
The sample consists of 60 adults.
Sampling technique:
Convenient technique will be used for selecting the area and
purposive sampling technique will used for selecting the sample.
Inclusion Criteria:
The study includes adults who are:
1) willing to participate in the study
2) available at the time of data collection
Exclusion Criteria:
The study excludes adults who are not:
1) willing to participate in the study
2)available at the time of data collection in treatment of pranic
healing.
SELECTED VARIABLES:
The variables included in the present study are:
Dependent variables:
Hypertension in middle aged adults.
Independent variables:
Pranic healing consists of exercises, and meditation.
Extraneous variables:
In the present study it refers to age, sex, martial status, number of
children, educational status, type of family, sources of information and
treatment exposure.
1. Age:
For the present study age was categorized as,
a) 40-49 years
b) 50-59 years
c) 60 years and above
2. Number of children:
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) Above 3
3. Occupation:
It is categorized as
a) coolie
b) Business
c) Private employee
d) Government employee
e) others
4. Educational Status: It refers to the ability of the adult to
read and write.
For the present study educational status was categorized as,
a) Literate
b) Illiterate
5. Diet history:
a) vegetarian
b) non- vegetarian
6. History of smoking:
a) Yes
b) No
If yes, how long and how many cigarettes per day
7. Family history of hypertensive disorder:
a) Yes
b) No
8. Type of Family:
It is categorized as
a) Nuclear family
b) Joint family
9. Sources of Information: it refers to the sources of gathering
information
a) Family members
b) Health team
c) Teachers
d) Relatives
e) Friends
f) Television
g) Radio
h) Newspaper
i) Magazine
j) Neighbor
10.Any treatment exposure: it refers to the type of treatment
undergone, if any
a) Yes
b) No
If yes, what type of treatment..
7.2 METHODS OF COLLECTING DATA:
Data Collection Instrument:
A Structured Questionnaire will be developed and used for
collecting the demographic data. The selected interventions for reducing
hypertension ie, pranic healing will be implemented. Level of anxiety is
assessed using anxiety scale and blood pressure with
sphygmomanometer.
Data Collection Method:
After obtaining prior permission from concerned authorities and
consent from the samples, the investigator will assess the demographic
information by interview schedule and level of blood pressure by using
sphygmomanometer and level of anxiety using anxiety scale.
Data collection will be carried in three phases:
Phase I: Pretest and checking of blood pressure will be done to assess the
level of anxiety and hypertension using sphygmomanometer and anxiety
scale.
Phase II: Implementation of pranic healing (exercises and meditation)
will be done for a month.
Phase III: Post test and level of blood pressure will be assessed by using
anxiety Scale and sphygmomanometer.
Plan for data Analysis:
Numerical data obtained from the sample will be organized and
summarized with the help of descriptive statistics like Frequency and
Percentage, Mean and Standard Deviation, Inferential statistics like
Paired‘t’ test will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of pranic healing
for hypertension and chi-square test will be used to test the level of
significance of hypothesis.
7.3 PROJECTED OUTCOME
The result of the study throws a light on effectiveness of pranic
healing for reducing hypertension. It helps the future researchers to adopt
their innovate strategies to get relief from hypertension.
7.4 DOES THE STUDY REQUIRES ANY INVESTIGATIONS OR
INTERVENTION TO BE CONDUCTED ON PATIENTS OR
OTHER HUMAN OR ANIMALS? IF SO, PLEASE DESCRIBE
BRIEFLY
Yes, the study requires intervention in the form of pranic healing
which consist of meditation and exercises.
7.5HAS ETHICAL CONSIDERATION BEEN OBTAINED FROM
YOUR INSTITUTE IN CASE OF 7.4?
Permission will be obtained from Institutional Ethical
Committee, Navodaya College of Nursing, Raichur.
Permission will be obtained from the authorities of the
selected community
Consent will be obtained from all the participant.
8. ALIST OF REFERENCE
1. WHO expert committee, primary prevention of essential hypertension. Tech Rep Ser .686
2. WHO (2005) guidelines for the management of mild hypertension.www.google.com.
3. Gliberts, Arnold, et al.,Hypertension and determinants of blood pressure with special reference to socioeconomic status in a rural south Indian community, health, 1998, 258-260
4. Rajeev gupta, Recent trends in hypertension epidemiology in India, South Asian Journal of preventive cardiology 2003, 90-100.
5. Gupta R ,Trends in hypertension epidemiology in India, Journal of human hypertension 2005 ; 18:73-78.
6. Grand master Choa, kok sui, Textbook of Ancient science and art of pranic healing, 311.
7. Grand master Choa , kok sui, Practical handbook for healing with color pranas, 327.
8. Master Choa kok sui, textbook of pranic crystal healing, 147.
9. Pranic healing Mysore. Com
10.Cecilla S M Chong, BS.” Effects of yoga on stress management in healthy adults”, Journal of alternative theraphy, vol 17.
11.John, A. Astin, Phd, et al., The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice 16: 131-147 (2003).
12.James.w.Anderson, “effect of meditation on blood pressure”, American Journal of hypertension,2011.
13.Gyandeep Mishra, yoga and Indian approaches to psychology,2002.
14.Halbert J A, et al., “The effectiveness of exercise training in lowering blood pressure”. Medline plus health,1997, Pubmed.
9. Signature of the Candidate :
10. Remarks of the Guide :
11. Name and Designation of :
11.1 Guide :
11.2 Signature : Ms. ANNAPOORNA.S M.Sc. ( N ) Associate Professor Department Of Medical and
Surgical Nursing
11.3 Co-Guide :
11.4 Signature :
11.5 Head of the Department : Ms. ANNAPOORNA.S M.Sc. ( N ) Associate Professor Department Of Medical and
Surgical Nursing
11.6 Signature :
12 Remarks of the Chairman & : Principal
12.1 Signature :