Effect of yoga on internet addiction among the students in a selected nursing training school of West Bengal

This study investigated the effectiveness of an eight-week yoga intervention in reducing internet addiction among students at the Nursing Training School, Burnpur. A pre-experimental one-group pre-test-post-test design was adopted to assess baseline addiction levels, evaluate the impact of yoga, and examine associations with selected demographic variables. Guided by General Systems Theory, the study included 90 randomly selected nursing students. Internet addiction was measured using Young’s Internet Addiction Test. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for analysis. Results revealed a statistically significant reduction in mean addiction scores, with a mean difference of 9.96 points at the.05 level. A significant association was found between family type and addiction levels (?² = 15.58, p