Abstract :
The study was undertaken to ascertain if a short term intervention of
ArhamPurushakar
Meditation
(
APM) results in the improvement of clinical conditions of patients with renal end
stage disease on hemodialysis. The study was conducted at Bhagwan Mahavir Di
alysis Centre in
association with Bhagwan Mahavir Medical Research Centre (BMMRC) after obtaining the
approval of the Institutional Ethics Committee. 111 Patients with end stage renal disease were
enrolled for the study after obtaining their consent for p
articipation. Then patients were
categorized into meditation group with 64 patients and control group with 47 patients. The
meditation group practiced meditation for three months and the control group received only
hemodialysis. The patients who practice
d meditation regularly showed improvement in their
health problems such as muscular cramps, vomiting, swelling of face and legs, hypertension, etc.
Thus this study presented evidence for the beneficial effects of short term intervention of APM
on the gener
al health conditions of the patients suffering from renal end stage diseases.
Keyword :
rhamPurushakar Meditation, Chronic renal failure, CRF, Hemodialysis, Meditation, Renal End Stage disease, Yoga.