Older women and wellbeing through the pandemic: Examining the effect of daily online yoga lessons.

WELL-being; ONLINE education; STATISTICS; KRUSKAL-Wallis Test; NONPARAMETRIC statistics; RESEARCH evaluation; STATISTICAL reliability; ANALYSIS of variance; YOGA; SELF-evaluation; MULTIVARIATE analysis; AGE distribution; FEAR; CONSUMER attitudes; ATTITUDES toward illness; PRE-tests & post-tests; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEX distribution; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; HEALTH; CHI-squared test; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICAL hypothesis testing; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ANXIETY; STATISTICAL sampling; DATA analysis; COVID-19 pandemic; WOMEN'S health; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience; GRAPHICAL user interfaces

The researcher reports the impact of online yoga lessons on a cohort of community-dwelling older adult women in mitigating fears, anxieties and promoting resilience, wellbeing and salutogenic wellness during the pandemic as compared to a control group. Online yoga lessons were effective and economic class, education, religion, marital status, and living arrangements were significant moderators. Intervention adherence had the strongest predictor effects. The combined effects of significant predictors were robust and latent class analyses indicated middle class, above threshold (>50%) lessons attendees and self-practice doers, single, living in nonstandard families, college educated, and Hindus, were likely to gain most. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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