Table 3.

Comparison between the yoga-experienced and yoga-naïve patients for mental wellbeing, perception of illness, and quality of life using Mann-Whitney U test.

S. No,	Variables	Yoga-experienced (n=150)	Yoga-naïve (n=269)	z-Value	p-Value
1	Mental wellbeing	49.99±11.65	47.54±11.63*	1.99	0.05
2	Brief perception of illness	43.59±11.49	45.03±11.28	1.26	0.21
2.1	Consequences	6.99±2.56	7.00±2.86	0.53	0.59
2.2	Timeline	5.53±2.82	5.86±3.08	1.28	0.20
2.3	Personal control	4.51±2.52	5.03±2.80#	1.87	0.06
2.4	Treatment control	3.47±2.55	3.68±2.82	0.54	0.59
2.5	Identity	6.42±2.43	6.15±2.65	1.13	0.26
2.6	Concern	7.37±2.99	7.74±2.85	1.52	0.13
2.7	Coherence	2.39±2.48	2.73±2.76	0.99	0.32
2.8	Emotional representation	6.92±2.84	6.85±3.02	0.04	0.97
2.9	Cognitive	26.91±7.59	27.71±7.88	1.19	0.24
3	Emotional	14.29±5.23	14.59±5.22	0.75	0.45
4	WHOQOL-BREF	Yoga-experienced (n=92)	Yoga-naïve (n=178)
4.1	Overall perception of quality of life	3.33±1.04	3.27±1.02	0.33	0.74
4.2	Overall perception of their health	2.99±2.20	2.75±1.05	0.37	0.62
4.3	Physical health	21.97±5.17	21.92±4.76	0.35	0.81
4.4	Psychological	19.09±5.08	17.77±4.47*	2.11	0.05
4.5	Social relationship	10.55±3.00	10.19±2.76	1.06	0.24
4.6	Environmental	26.27±6.10	24.27±5.81*	2.43	0.02
4.7	Total quality of life	84.20±17.13	80.16±16.02#	1.89	0.07

^*p<0.05 at two tailed level,

^#p<0.05 at one tailed level, level of significance between the groups; Mann-Whitney U test for non-parametric data.

WHOQOL-BREF – the World Health Organization quality of life self-reporting questionnaire.