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

Abstract

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.