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Development of A Mobile Application in Yoga Therapy for Elderly with Hypertension

Supparang Ruangvanich, Manop Phoosuwan

Asian Journal of Advanced Research and Reports · pp. 30–43 · Published 5 Jun 2024

10.9734/ajarr/2024/v18i7682

Abstract

Aims: 1) to develop mobile application in yoga therapy for elderly with hypertension and 2) to study the use of mobile application in yoga therapy for elderly with hypertension. Study Design:  A quasi-experimental design with a pretest-posttest design and a control design. Place and Duration of Study: Sample: Nawamin 9 Hospital in Minburi, between December 2022 and November 2023. Methodology: An in-depth interview was conducted with 136 patients, 10 developing mobile application specialists and 10 yoga specialists. 400 samples were used questionnaire to find out the need of usage mobile application with random sampling. Results: First, found that the results of the evaluation of pre and posttest for usage mobile application in both experiment group and control group had the reduced level of the hypertension. Second, content of the mobile application contains learning object of hypertension and yoga exercises that consist of technique of reduce hypertension with no medicine, reduce salt, how to take care yourself, when sick of hypertension, hypertension reduction, recommendation of hypertension and yoga exercises for reduction hypertension. Conclusion: The quality of this mobile application was at high level and then train 50 hypertension patients. Third, found that the overall satisfaction was at high level.

Mobile application yoga therapy hypertension elderly

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