Quality of Life in Yoga Practitioners-Research Conducted on a Population of Polish Yogis

• Published in: International journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 19; no. 19; p. 12023
• Main Authors: Piekorz, Zuzanna, Radzimińska, Agnieszka, Lewandowski, Andrzej, Ossowski, Roman
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 23.09.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Adult; Chi-square test; Consent; Domains; Education; Exercise; Humans; Kruskal-Wallis test; Meditation; Poland; Quality assessment; Quality of Life; Questionnaires; Sociodemographics; Surveys and Questionnaires; Variables; Variance analysis; Yoga; Yoga - psychology; Poland; Central Europe; India; hatha yoga; complementary and alternative medicine; CAM; physical activity
• ISSN: 1660-4601; 1661-7827; 1660-4601
• DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191912023

The aim of the study is to determine the quality of life of a population of healthy adult yoga practitioners and the correlation between the features of yoga practice and the quality of life. A total of 300 people aged 35-50 years were examined and divided into two groups. The respondent (SG; = 150) was a yoga practitioner, and the control (CG; = 150) did not practice yoga. The original questionnaire and the quality-of-life questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) were used. The chi-square test, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, the Mann-Whitney U test, the ANOVA Kruskal-Wallis test and the linear regression model were used. The significance level was set at < 0.05. Yoga practitioners are characterised by a significantly greater overall satisfaction with the quality of life (U = 9794.50; < 0.05), a higher level of health satisfaction (U = 9194.50; < 0.01) and higher satisfaction with quality life in terms of the results of somatic domains (U = 7579.00; < 0.001), psychological (U = 8554.00; < 0.001) and environmental domains (U = 7919.5; < 0.001). A relationship was observed between the experience of yoga practice and the assessment of the quality of life in terms of physical functioning. The practice of adult yoga positively influences the assessment of their quality of life in the physical, mental and environmental spheres.