Selected exercise program as a determinant of increasing the level of self confidence among diabetic women

Science and Technology have revolutionized the life style of man and the increased standard of living has made man sedentary leading to chronic non communicable diseases. The purpose of the study is to measure the influence of Yogic Practices and Brisk walking on the confidence level of the Diabetic women. For this purpose ninety women with type II diabetes were chosen randomly from various hospitals at Chennai City, Tamilnadu, India. Their age ranged between 40–45 years. They were assigned to experimental group I, experimental group II and control group each having 30 subjects. Experimental group I underwent yogic practices, experimental group II underwent brisk walking for twelve weeks and control group was not given any training. The confidence level of the women was measured through a questionnaire by Rekha Agnihortry. Recent research has revealed that like many other current personality constructs, self confidence may be multi-dimensional including there ability to use psychological skills. The statistical analysis comparing the initial and final means of self confidence due to twelve weeks of yogic practices and brisk walking in type II diabetic women showed that there was a significant difference between the groups as the obtained F value of 7.27 was greater than the required F value of 3.1. This proved that the differences between the post test means of the subjects were significant. The adjusted mean scores based on the obtained F value proved that there was a significant difference among the means due to twelve weeks of yogic practices and brisk walking on the self confidence. The means of the groups showed that yogic practices showed better result than the walking group. However there was no significant difference between the experimental groups. It was concluded that systematic exercise program is one of the determinants of increasing the self confidence among diabetic women.