IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bfy/ojejhs/v8y2024i5p1-13id2215.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

“Impact of Zumba on General Anxiety Disorder – An Experimental Study among Nurses, UAE”

Author

Listed:
  • Dr. Majella Livingston Alber
  • Deepa Murali
  • Renjitha Abraham

Abstract

Purpose: To measure the result of Zumba on General Anxiety Disorder among nurses at multispecialty government hospital. Materials and Methods: A true experimental design was selected for this study. 70 nurses from multispecialty hospital partook this study. Samples were arbitrarily dispensed to both control and study group. Study group underwent 30 minutes of Zumba, daily for 3 months. Data were gathered via online before and after the Zumba from both study and control group. The instrument used to collect data was General Anxiety Disorder- 7 scale. Findings: The mean value in the study group test (12.89) was significantly less than the control group (19.6) with the t value of -15.762 at 5% in the level of significance. It shows there is a momentous drop of general anxiety Disease after doing Zumba. Zumba is certainly one of the best option to treat the General Anxiety Disease (GAD), which enables to increase the mental health as well as the overall wellbeing of the nurses. Implications to Theory, Practice and Policy: Since Zumba is a mixture of music and fun workout can safely include in the nurse’s routine even within the hospital to reduce nurse's GAD.

Suggested Citation

  • Dr. Majella Livingston Alber & Deepa Murali & Renjitha Abraham, 2024. "“Impact of Zumba on General Anxiety Disorder – An Experimental Study among Nurses, UAE”," European Journal of Health Sciences, AJPO Journals Limited, vol. 8(5), pages 1-13.
    • Handle: RePEc:bfy:ojejhs:v:8:y:2024:i:5:p:1-13:id:2215
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ajpojournals.org/journals/index.php/EJHS/article/view/2215/2818
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bfy:ojejhs:v:8:y:2024:i:5:p:1-13:id:2215. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chief Editor (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://ajpojournals.org/journals/index.php/EJHS/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.