Effect of JPMR on State-Trait Anxiety among young female adult during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown

Abstract

The worldwide pandemic situation that is caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led the population to a state of confinement, which has created a rise in state trait anxiety among people around us. COVID-19 affected our psychological state similarly as our physical health. The research design used in this study is quasi experimental research design and the questionnaire used was State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI Form Y-1 & Y-2 Charles D. Spielberger, 1983). Study includes 30 young female adult and out of that 15 subjects were taken into account as experimental group and were given the JPMR as the intervention plan for one month. The objective of our study is to find the effectiveness of JPMR on state trait anxiety. After the intervention data was analysed using paired t-test and correlation. Although result proved that for state anxiety obtained P value is 0.000 which is significant at 0.01 level (t =7.08, p=0.000) indicating that JPMR therapy was effective in reducing the state anxiety for the experimental group. No significant difference found in trait anxiety in both experimental and control group.