The stress reduction potential of Bhagavad Gita and Yoga for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial

• Nishant Das ,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors must be considered joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India

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• Laalithya Konduru ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: laalithya@gmail.com

  ¶‡ These authors must be considered joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Sri Jagannath Healthcare and Research Center, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Univresity, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3763-9778

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• Simranjeet Singh Dahia,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia, Mineral Resources, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Waite Campus, Urrbrae, South Australia, Australia

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• Santwana Sagnika,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Computer Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

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• Gargi Kothari-Speakman,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Savitri Ghantasala Center for Health Equity, Samanjasa Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Ajit Kumar Behura

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India

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