CALISTHENICS ON STRESS AMONG ALCOHOL DEPENDENTS

Alcohol is a natural substance and exerts a depressant effects on the central nerve system, resulting in behavioral and mood changes and cause for death in both developed and developing countries. Alcohol dependence syndrome is a strong desire to take the substance and difficult in cutting of substance taking behavior and creating harm to self, traffic accidents, domestic violence and also psychological parameter changes like stress in alcohol dependents. Moreover, the number of studies found in South India over this topic are especially sparse. Hence, researcher has an interest in application of Calisthenics among alcohol dependents to reduce the stress and thereby promoting good psychological well-being and balancing the better outcome in health condition.