Effect of Aerobic Training Program to Reduce Stress and Anxiety Among Persons with Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome

Abstract

Introduction: To determine the effect of aerobic training programs on reducing stress and anxiety among people with alcohol withdrawal syndrome

Objectives: To identify stress and anxiety among alcohol withdrawal patients by using the DASS scale; To find out the effectiveness of conventional therapy among alcohol withdrawal patients in the control group; To administer an effective aerobic training program among alcohol withdrawal patients in the experimental group; To find out and correlate whether this aerobic training protocol is effective for stress and anxiety relief among alcohol withdrawal patients.

Methods: A total of thirty (30) populations were selected according to the inclusion criteria. The alcohol withdrawal persons with stress and anxiety were measured by the DASS-21 scale. The samples were divided into fifteen (15) samples in the experimental group and (15) fifteen samples in the control group. The intervention that is given to the sample is mild to severe levels of stress and anxiety. The pre-test and post-test were collected from both the control and experimental groups. The experimental group receives aerobic training exercise whereas the control group does not receive aerobic training exercise.

Results: The results showed that the comparison of pre and post-test mean DASS 21 of the experimental group was highly statistically significant, as compared to the control group because of the effect of aerobic training programs to reduce stress and anxiety among persons with alcohol withdrawal syndrome Since the p-value of 0.001 is lesser than 0.05. The DASS 21 measure scores of the pre and post-test of the control group were significantly lower than that of the experimental group after the implementation of an aerobic training program.

Conclusions: The current study concludes that there was a significant improvement in the experimental group than the control group after the aerobic training program. Thus, this study proves that aerobic training programs can be used as an effective intervention to reduce stress and anxiety by using the DASS 21 scale for persons with alcohol withdrawal syndrome.