“Impact of Zumba on General Anxiety Disorder – An Experimental Study among Nurses, UAE”
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Zumba, General Anxiety Disorder, NursesAbstract
Purpose: To measure the result of Zumba on General Anxiety Disorder among nurses at multispecialty government hospital.
Materials and Methods: A true experimental design was selected for this study. 70 nurses from multispecialty hospital partook this study. Samples were arbitrarily dispensed to both control and study group. Study group underwent 30 minutes of Zumba, daily for 3 months. Data were gathered via online before and after the Zumba from both study and control group. The instrument used to collect data was General Anxiety Disorder- 7 scale.
Findings: The mean value in the study group test (12.89) was significantly less than the control group (19.6) with the t value of -15.762 at 5% in the level of significance. It shows there is a momentous drop of general anxiety Disease after doing Zumba. Zumba is certainly one of the best option to treat the General Anxiety Disease (GAD), which enables to increase the mental health as well as the overall wellbeing of the nurses.
Implications to Theory, Practice and Policy: Since Zumba is a mixture of music and fun workout can safely include in the nurse’s routine even within the hospital to reduce nurse's GAD.
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