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Background and Purpose: In recent decade, the importance of exercise in offices and organizations, due to increased job stress, is increased. Everyone has some degree of nervousness and stress in his/her workplace. Therefore the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of aerobic and yoga exercises training on efficacy of female staff in Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences.
Methods and materials: The method was semi experiment and the statistical sample consisted of 850 female staff in Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences in 1391 in which 57 female staff was randomly selected among them. They were divided into 3 groups (19 persons). Aerobics and yoga exercises were held at 8 weeks, 3 times a week for 60 minutes each time. The tools for gathering the data were a standardized questionnaire of self-efficacy (GSE) Schwarzer. For analyzing the data, t-test with a significant level of 0/05 was used.
Findings: The results showed that between yoga and control groups, there were significant differences in the posttest (p=0/562) whereas there was no significant difference between aerobic and control groups (p =0/035) as well as between yoga group and aerobics group (p=0/002).
Conclusion:The results showed that aerobic exercises didn't have any significant improvement on efficacy of female staff in Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences. It also showed that yoga exercises caused increasing efficacy in female staff in Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences.
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