Study of spiritual well-being among pancagavya and non-pancagavya diet population
Abstract
Context: Spiritual well‐being is known as the latest dimension after the health dimensions such as physical, social and psychological ones, which leads to the integration of other dimensions. Pancagavya diet based on the consumption of five products from Bos indicus cow not only helps to provide physical health but also useful in other aspects of life like spiritual well‐being.
Aims: To study the aspect of spiritual well-being among pancagavya diet and non-pancagavya diet population.
Material and Methods: Both male and female subjects of sample size 80 with age range between 20 to 80 years were recruited from different states of India. The present study is a cross-sectional comparative study between pancagavya diet and non-pancagavya diet population and had more than two years in their diet and used spiritual health and life-orientation measure (SHALOM) questionnaire to measure spiritual health.
Statistical analysis used: Data analysis was done by using JASP software with Shapiro–Wilk test for normality, and independent sample t-test was performed.
Results: As shown by the findings of this study, all the four domains of spiritual well-being in both the self-feeling assessment and in the ideal condition except in two domains communal and environmental having noticeable more mean value among pancagavya diet group compared to non-pancagavya diet group.
Conclusions: There was improvement in spiritual well-being among pancagavya diet group compared to non- pancagavya diet group.
Keywords: Pancagavya Diet, Non-Pancagavya Diet, Spiritual Well-Being, Self-Feeling Assessment, Ideal Condition
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