the effect of nurse initiated nutritional counselling with hatha yoga on nutritional status of hiv infected adolescents: randomized controlled trial

Context: the adolescence is a period of fabulous changes made in growth as physically, emotionally, and socially; because of deprived nutrition, these changes become declined and more complicated for an adolescent diagnosed with hiv. aim: the study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of nurse‑initiated nutritional counseling with hatha yoga on nutritional status of hiv‑infected adolescents. setting and design: this was randomized controlled trial research with a wait-list control group design adopted in selected antiretroviral therapy centers in chennai, tamil nadu. materials and methods: through simple random technique, a total of 388 hiv‑infected adolescents were divided into experimental (195) and control (193) groups. the data were collected from samples/caregivers through a structured nutritional assessment questionnaire, and anthropometric measurements were also noted. the nutritional counseling was given to experimental group alone and asanas were demonstrated by a researcher. the data were collected from both groups at 0, 3rd, and 6th month intervals. statistical analysis used: data were analyzed using descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics such as chi‑square, anova “f”‑test, and bonferroni t‑test. results: according to the “z” score, the baseline assessment showed that 28% in the experimental and 29% in the control group of hiv-infected adolescents were malnourished, and the remaining percentage was within normal. however, on 6th month evaluation, it reduced to 19% and 28%, respectively. hence, nutritional gain score was increased to 9.3% in the experimental and 1.5% in the control group with 95% confidence interval. conclusion: the motivational counseling along with hatha yoga has effectiveness to increase nutritional status of hiv‑infected adolescents in the experimental group than in the control group.