title: Effect of Sudarshan Kriya on male prisoners with non psychotic psychiatric disorders: a randomized control trial.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate whether Sudarshan Kriya and related practices (SK&P) can lead to increased global assessment of functioning (GAF) and increased feeling of wellness in male prisoners with a non psychotic psychiatric disorder.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a six month parallel randomized controlled study with sample size of 230 male prisoners. Participants meeting inclusion and exclusion criteria were assigned to a study or control group by simple random allocation in which random allocation sequence was generated using a random number table. Each individual study participant was involved in a daily program of SK&P for six weeks. Each individual control participant was instructed to sit in an armchair with his eyes closed and gentle attention to their breath for duration of six weeks. To be included in this study, a participant must be a male prisoner diagnosed to be suffering from a psychiatric disorder (except psychosis and bipolar affective disorder [BPAD]) by ICD-10 (DCR) criteria with age between 18 and 65 years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Majority of subjects were unemployed married individuals, educated until undermatric level and not having occupational skills of more than an unskilled labor level. Practicing SK&P for six weeks led to improvement in mean±SD score of study participants in GAF, anxiety (ANX), depressed mood (DEP), positive well being (PWB), general health (GH), self control (SC), vitality (VT) and total positive general well being (PGWB). Change in mean±SD score of study participants when compared with control participants was statistically significant in terms of GAF, ANX, DEP, PWB, GH and PGWB. Increase in SC and VT scores was statistically insignificant when compared with control participants.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Practicing SK&P helps in improving GAF, PWB, GH and total PGWB of an individual. SK&P also causes significant reduction in anxiety and depression levels. Effect of SK&P on SC and VT is insignificant.
authors.affiliation: Consultant Psychiatrist, Hands for Help Clinic, D-206, Amba G. Residency, Ahinsa Khand-2, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad 201014, India. Electronic address: pankajsureka17@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Pankaj
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sureka
authors.affiliation: Central Jail Hospital (CJH), Tihar, New Delhi 110064, India.
authors.forename: Sandeep
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Govil
authors.affiliation: Central Jail Hospital (CJH), Tihar, New Delhi 110064, India.
authors.forename: Debadutta
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dash
authors.affiliation: Central Jail Hospital (CJH), Tihar, New Delhi 110064, India.
authors.forename: Chandika
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dash
authors.affiliation: Central Jail Hospital (CJH), Tihar, New Delhi 110064, India.
authors.forename: Mukesh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: Central Jail Hospital (CJH), Tihar, New Delhi 110064, India.
authors.forename: Vikas
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Singhal
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D015013:Yoga / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Male; Psychiatric disorder; Sudarshan Kriya