Effect of Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) in Patients with Obesity

Author Name: Dr. J.Sathya Shenbega Priya1, Dr. L. N. Samaga

Volume: 03/01

Country: India

DOI NO.: 11.2023-61555522 DOI Link: https://doi-ds.org/doilink/07.2025-44849168/GIJNR

Affiliation:

1. 1. Principal, College of Nursing, Kannur Medical College, Anjarakandy, Kannur, Kerala.
   2. Professor, Department of Medicine, K. S. Hegde Medical Academy, Deralakatte, Mangalore.

ABSTRACT

The study was undertaken to evaluate the “Effect of Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) in Patients with Obesity”. In this study, the researcher has selected only one aspect of therapeutic lifestyle changes, i.e., yoga, and the patients included in this study were obese patients. The objectives of the study were to assess the pre-test and post-tests weight of obesity patients in experimental and control group, to compare the mean pre-test and mean post-tests weight score of obesity patients among experimental and control group, to evaluate the effectiveness of Therapeutic Life Style Changes (TLC), i.e., yoga on weight among patients with Obesity, to find out the association between weight and selected demographic variable of obesity patients. The conceptual framework used for the study was J. W. Kenny’s Open System Model. A true experimental time series pre-test post-test design was adopted for the study. A purposive sampling technique was followed to collect the samples. After collecting the sample the researcher followed the Probability sampling technique, i.e., simple random method to assign the patients of obesity as per sample size to the experimental and control group randomly by using flipping a coin method. The sample size of the study was 120 obese patients.Among 120 obesity patients 60 patients were in experimental group and 60 patients were in control group. Yoga was demonstrated for experimental group and it was practiced by them daily, one to one and a half hours. No intervention was given to the control group, meanwhile. The weight of obesity patients was measured every fifteen days to observe the difference and it was continued up to 180 days. ANOVA repeated measures were applied to elicit the difference of weight within the group and between the groups. The finding implies that when compared with the control group the experimental group had a significant reduction in the weight of patients with obesity. There was also a significant association found in weight and smoking. The findings of the study infer that yoga is one of the therapeutic lifestyle interventions used to reduce weight among patients with obesity.

Key words: Obesity, TLC, Yoga, overweight, non-pharmacological intervention.