2022, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Part B

Background: Stress is a feeling or emotion or physical tension. It can come from any event or thought that make feel frustrated, angry, or nervous. Stress affects us day to day life by own activities or may be by other activities.

Objectives: To assess the demographic variables of the first year B.Sc.(N) students in experimental and control group, To assess the pre – test and post - test level of stress among first year B. Sc. Nursing students in the experimental group and control group, To assess the effectiveness of ‘So Hum’ meditation in experimental group, To find out the association between pre-test stress score with selected demographic variables in experimental group.

Methodology: A quantitative research approach was adopted in which Pretest posttest group design was used by the researcher and the sampling technique was used random sampling technique. Perceived stress scale is used to determine the stress of the subject. Total number of the sample was 60 in which 30 was in control group and 30 was in experimental group. Independent variable was ‘So Hum’ meditation and dependent variable was stress.

Result: Overall, out of 30 subjects, majority of the sample 15 (50%) belonged to the age group 18 years, whereas 5 (16.66%) of the sample belonged to the age group of 17 years and 5 (16.66%) of the sample belongs to the age group of 19 years and 5 (16.66%) belonged to 20& above years. In experimental group, the pretest scores on the level of stress 28 (93.33%) had Moderate stress and 1(3.33%) had High stress and 1(3.33%) had low stress respectively. Whereas post test scores on the level of stress, 30 (100%) have low stress.

Recommendation: The finding of the present study can be used as a guide of future research. With the help of this study, people can reduce the stress by ‘So Hum’ meditation in the busy world.

Conclusion: Analysis of this study suggest that ‘So Hum’ meditation is beneficial for the people.