Effect Of “Y” Break Program On Occupational Stress Of It Employee Of Pune

Abstract

Information technology (IT) personnel are routinely subjected to prolonged screen time in the current digital era, which can cause a number of health issues, including occupational stress. Therefore, the purpose of present study was to see the effect of “Y” break program on occupational stress. in IT employees of Pune. The study followed a single group pre-post design wherein 30 employees of IT company were selected by using purposive sampling technique. All the thirty subjects were assessed at the baseline and after completion of one month of Y break training for occupational stress. by using Questionnaire (Srivastava & Singh, 1984) Descriptive Statistics was used to assess the efficacy of Y break program. The results of repeated measures ANOVA and Bonferroni’s post hoc test showed Results of The 'Y' break programme significantly improved occupational stress levels (F=57.82, p=0.001, ηp2=0.63), according to ANOVA. Post-hoc analysis with Bonferroni adjustment revealed a substantial reduction in Occupational Stress ratings among male IT employees from pretest to posttest (mean difference=3.17; p<0.001) the present study suggests that one month of ‘Y” break training program can decrease occupational stress in IT employees.