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35 Happiness Project: A Customized Mind Body Intervention Significantly Changed the Social Relationship Scores Among Healthy College Students during the COVID-19 pandemic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2023

Varun Pillai ,
Nuthan Manohar ,
Nicole Byrne ,
Adriana Rodriguez  and
Anil Nair
Varun Pillai
Affiliation:
Boston Neuropsychiatry, Boston, MA, USA.
Nuthan Manohar
Affiliation:
MeMetMe, Netherlandss, Netherlands, Netherlands.
Nicole Byrne
Affiliation:
Boston Neuropsychiatry, Boston, MA, USA.
Adriana Rodriguez
Affiliation:
Boston Neuropsychiatry, Boston, MA, USA.
Anil Nair*
Affiliation:
Alzheimers Disease Center, Boston, MA, USA.
*
Correspondence: Anil Nair, ADC (nair.anil@gmail.com)
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Abstract

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Objective:

To find how healthy college going participants SRS were affected by a customized Mind Body Intervention (MBI).

Participants and Methods:

We performed a customized online tele-video course based MBI incorporating mindfulness and awareness training over a period of one month in 2021 to MBA students attending the Indian Institute of Management (IIM). Each subject was their own control. We used the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale (QO-BREF) social relationship sub-scores pre and post intervention to assess participant SRS.

Results:

277 MBA students from the IIM with a mean age of 26.89 ± 1.7 were analyzed. Of the 277 students, 90 (32.49%) were female. The MBI decreased the self-perceived Social Relationship score among 277 graduate students. The mean SRS before the intervention was 7.51 ± 1.7 while the mean SRS after was 6.9 ± 1.7. Univariate paired t-test showed a significant mean difference (t = 5.1, p<.001). On a multivariate linear-regression model, the SRS change estimate was 0.46, t-value was 9.3, p < 0.001; 95% confidence interval was 0.37 - 0.56; p-value <0.001.

Conclusions:

An online tele-video based customized Mind Body Intervention decreased the self-perceived social relationship score among graduate students at the IIM during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Keywords

social cognitionmetacognitionadaptive functioning
Type
Poster Session 09: Psychiatric Disorders | Mood & Anxiety Disorders | Addiction | Social Cognition | Cognitive Neuroscience | Emotional and Social Processing
Information
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 29 , Supplement s1: Final Program Fifty First Annual Meeting International Neuropsychological Society February 1–4, 2023 San Diego, CA, USA , November 2023 , pp. 824
Copyright
Copyright © INS. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2023