Reliability and factor analysis of Hindi version of IES-R scale: Effect of Rajyoga meditation on perceiving the impact of COVID-19

Madhu, Shobhika; Kumar, Prashant; Chandra, Sushil

doi:10.1016/j.dialog.2022.100024

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“…A higher level of psychological discomfort was positively correlated with being female, older than 44, or having more children in the household. Hindi version of IES-R has been validated in Rajyoga meditators in a previous study [24] . Scores on the IES-R and the existence of COVID symptoms were shown to be significantly positively correlated.…”

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Stress and the impact of stressful events are lesser among raja yoga meditators – A cross sectional study during COVID-19 pandemic from India

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Stress and the impact of stressful events are lesser among raja yoga meditators – A cross sectional study during COVID-19 pandemic from India

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“…A similar study on patients undergoing cardiac surgery reported reduced anxiety and cortisol levels in meditators compared to the control group (Kiran et al, 2017) and improved cardiorespiratory functions due to long-term practice of Rajyoga meditation (Sukhsohale and Phatak, 2012). Rajyoga meditators reported increased happiness, self-satisfaction scores (Ramesh et al, 2013), and only 4.7% of the 801 meditators in a study reported moderate and severe psychological outbreaks due to Covid 19 (Madhu et al, 2022). Reduced delta and increased low-alpha activity during Rajyoga meditation was reported in a localization study using EEG (Sharma et al, 2020).…”

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Coherence-based interhemispheric EEG functional connectivity changes in distinct frequency bands during eyes open meditation

Sharma

Adarsh

et al. 2023

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Meditation is a self-regulatory process practiced primarily to reduce stress, manage emotions and mental health. The objective was to study the information exchange between symmetric electrodes across the hemispheres during meditation using functional connectivity (FC) measures. We investigate the changes in the coherence between EEG electrode pairs during the meditation practiced by long-term Brahmakumaris Rajyoga meditators with open eyes and during listening to music by controls as the comparable task. Two distinct FC measures derived from coherency, namely, magnitude squared coherence (MSC) and imaginary part of coherency (ICoh) are used to study the changes in interhemispheric coherence. During baseline conditions, higher MSC is found in meditators in frontocentral and centroparietal regions and higher |ICoh| globally in higher beta and gamma bands than controls. Further, in meditators, the MSC significantly increases in higher theta and alpha bands in the frontal and parietal regions and |ICoh| significantly decreases across all regions and bands except in the alpha band during meditation. However, the control subjects with no knowledge of meditation show no change in theta or alpha MSC or |ICoh| during the music session. Distinct patterns of changes are observed with the two FC measures in different frequency bands during meditation in the meditators and music-listening session in the control subjects indicating varied information processing between the right and left hemispheres and differences in the FC measures used. We found increased MSC and decreased |ICoh| between the frontal electrodes implying increased self-awareness in meditators. The MSC between the occipital electrodes in meditators is less than the controls in baseline condition indicating a possible modified visual information processing in Rajyoga meditators due to the long-term practice of meditation with open eyes. Overall, the changes in MSC indicate increased functional integration during meditation supporting the hypothesis of cortical integration theory.

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Functional reorganization of the brain in distinct frequency bands during eyes-open meditation

Pradeep Kumar,

Sharma,

Adarsh

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Consciousness and Cognition

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Reliability and factor analysis of Hindi version of IES-R scale: Effect of Rajyoga meditation on perceiving the impact of COVID-19

Cited by 3 publications

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Stress and the impact of stressful events are lesser among raja yoga meditators – A cross sectional study during COVID-19 pandemic from India

Stress and the impact of stressful events are lesser among raja yoga meditators – A cross sectional study during COVID-19 pandemic from India

Coherence-based interhemispheric EEG functional connectivity changes in distinct frequency bands during eyes open meditation

Functional reorganization of the brain in distinct frequency bands during eyes-open meditation

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