Background Anxiety is a primary concern affecting the prognosis
of CABG patients. Relieving anxiety is thus a component of management in
patients with CABG. Also, patients with bypass surgery express
compromise in exercise tolerance. We use two feasible and cost-effective
treatment techniques to know the improvement in symptoms of anxiety and
exercise tolerance. Objective To evaluate the efficacy of chair
aerobics and pranayama on anxiety in patients who underwent CABG. We
hypothesized that there would be an improvement in anxiety in CABG
patients after receiving the interventions. Methods In a total
of 21 screened, 16 met eligibility requirements. These were randomized
into two, group A and group B. Group A is treated with progressive chair
aerobics, and group B with nadisodhana pranayama. Both groups were given
standardised cardiac rehabilitation techniques. The duration was fifteen
minutes of activity along with phase 1 cardiac rehabilitation. The
treatment session was given once a day in the morning. The intervention
starts from the post-operative day 3 to post-operative day 7. The
anxiety is measured by the tool “hospital anxiety and depression
scale”. The exercise capacity of the patient was measured by a 6-minute
walk test. Heart rate is estimated to know the somatic and physiologic
components of anxiety. Took all the outcome measures before the surgery
and on post-operative day 7 by a blinded outcome assessor.
Results: The results showed that the improvement in the p-value
of HADS anxiety, depression, and heart rate of both groups is less than
0.05. The 6-minute walk test showed better improvement in the chair
aerobics group with a p-value less than 005. Registration: The
trial is prospectively registered in CTRI. The trial registration number
is CTRI/2021/09/037008.