Effects of Aerobic Dance Exercise on Selected Physiological Variables and Body Composition of Clients with Substance Use Disorder

Seid Demlie¹, Soumitra Mondal^1* & Estedingl Hadera²

¹Department of Sport Science, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Mekelle University
²Department of Nursing, College of Other Health Sciences, Mekelle University

Dr. Soumitra Mondal, Department of Sport Science, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Mekelle University.

Keywords: Aerobic Dance; Substance use Disorder; Vo2max; Breath Holding Time

Abstract

Purpose
The purpose of the study was to assess the effects of aerobic dance exercise on selected physiological variables and body composition of clients with substance use disorder in Mekelle rehabilitation center.
Methods
Thirteen (13) Male aged from 20 to 30 clients were selected from twenty-two (22) total population as subjects from substance rehabilitation center by using purposive sampling technique. The subjects were volunteered to actively participating in 12 weeks 3-day peer weeks’ intervention and the body composition, selected physiological variables were tested prior to and after the training period. The study was formulated as a single group design, consisting of a pre-test and post-test. The collected data from the pretest and posttest was statistically analyzed by using descriptive and paired t-test. The 0.05 level of confidence was fixed to test the significance.
Results
The results revealed that aerobic dance exercise significantly improved resting heart rate, vo2 max, breath holding time and diastolic blood pressure than pre-test. Also 12-week aerobic dance exercise no significantly improves some physiological variables namely; respiratory rate, systolic blood pressure and body composition similarly. Then it was concluded that aerobic dance exercise is beneficial to rehabilitation for Substance use disorder. Based on the findings, the investigators recommended that the aerobic dance program should be introduced to substance rehabilitation center as one of the rehabilitation tools.

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