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Yoga May Mitigate Decreases in High School Grades
Joint Authors
Khalsa, Sat Bir S.
Butzer, Bethany
van Over, Max
Noggle Taylor, Jessica J.
Source
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-8, 8 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-08-10
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This study involves an exploratory examination of the effects of a 12-week school-based yoga intervention on changes in grade point average (GPA) in 9th and 10th grade students.
Participants included 95 high school students who had registered for physical education (PE) in spring 2010.
PE class sections were group randomized to receive either a yoga intervention or a PE-as-usual control condition.
The yoga intervention took place during the entire third quarter and half of the fourth quarter of the school year, and quarterly GPA was collected via school records at the end of the school year.
Results revealed a significant interaction between group and quarter suggesting that GPA differed between the yoga and control groups over time.
Post hoc tests revealed that while both groups exhibited a general decline in GPA over the school year, the control group exhibited a significantly greater decline in GPA from quarter 1 to quarter 3 than the yoga group.
Both groups showed equivalent declines in GPA in quarter 4 after the yoga intervention had ended.
The results suggest that yoga may have a protective effect on academic performance by preventing declines in GPA; however these preventive effects may not persist once yoga practice is discontinued.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Butzer, Bethany& van Over, Max& Noggle Taylor, Jessica J.& Khalsa, Sat Bir S.. 2015. Yoga May Mitigate Decreases in High School Grades. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1061284
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Butzer, Bethany…[et al.]. Yoga May Mitigate Decreases in High School Grades. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1061284
American Medical Association (AMA)
Butzer, Bethany& van Over, Max& Noggle Taylor, Jessica J.& Khalsa, Sat Bir S.. Yoga May Mitigate Decreases in High School Grades. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1061284
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1061284