Results
Table II presents means and standard deviations
in the questionnaire scales achieved by exercising and
non-exercising women, before and after the programme.
To assess yoga’s impact on functioning of exercising
women, the results from scales differentiating
participants in the first stage were not taken into account
in further inferring (it referred to Nausea and
vomiting and Pain). We analysed the results only from these scales that did not differentiate participants in
the first stage but there occurred differences after the
programme (Table III). Therefore, we analysed betweengroup
comparisons of: General health status and quality
of life, Physical and Social functioning, Role functioning,
Dyspnoea, Future prospects and Arm and Breast
symptoms. The differences occurring in the second
measurement revealed significantly higher indices of
General health status and quality of life, Physical and
Social functioning, Role functioning and Future prospects,
and significantly lower indices of Dyspnoea, Arm
and Breast symptoms and Fatigue (borderline significance
p = 0.059) in the experimental group.
Within-group comparisons revealed differences in
the results obtained in the two measurements. In the
experimental group, the index of General health status
and quality of life significantly increased (p = 0.048)
and Arm symptoms significantly declined (p = 0.046)
after the programme. The decrease in the Dyspnoea index
in this group in the second measurement was on
the borderline of statistical significance (p = 0.059). In the control group, after 10 weeks the results in Social
functioning were significantly lower than in the first
measurement and we also observed a significant decrease
in the Role functioning index (p = 0.045).