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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3278</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url">http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.13109</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Influence of Exercise Environment on Attentional Awareness and Emotional Changes Among Elderly&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Anandh</surname><given-names>S.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Patil</surname><given-names>Smita</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Varadharajulu</surname><given-names>G.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Alate</surname><given-names>Mahendra M.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mane</surname><given-names>Dhirajkumar A.</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>5</day><month>01</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>98</fpage><lpage>102</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: Emotional wellbeing in the elderly is an essential track of the quality of life. The progress of any intervention for the elderly depends on mood characteristics and attention related to cognitive health which spirals further accordingly. In residential aged care and retired home-dwelling elderly attention and mood effect varies with individual and situation from time to time.&#13;
Objective: To explore the effects of exercise environment on Positive / Negative mood effect __ampersandsignamp; Attention awareness among elderly without mobility limitation on Indoor versus Outdoor environment.&#13;
Methods: 102 literate elderly participants within the age group of 65 - 75 years sedentary and independent were recruited from the general public of Karad, Satara district of Maharashtra. Research environment setting: Outdoor environment was grassland with partly interspersed with trees. The indoor environment is a paved path within the walls or building pathways and not expose to greenery. Measures: Baseline and Posttest measures after 8 weeks adaptation to the exercise environment using PANAS questionnaire to record the scores of positive and negative mood effect and Mindful attention awareness scale (MAAS) to record attention awareness. The participants were made to undergo dual-task activity exercises and mindful walking in their prescribed environment during the 8 weeks of the adaptation period.&#13;
Results: The Pretest and Posttest measures have been analyzed and found that the outdoor environment has a significant influence on positive mood effect and improved attention awareness in the elderly.&#13;
Conclusion: Emotional wellbeing won__ampersandsignrsquo;t work upon compulsion and it has to be explored to reach pleasantness.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Outdoor environment</kwd><kwd> Indoor environment</kwd><kwd> Positive mood effect</kwd><kwd> Negative mood effect</kwd><kwd> Emotional wellbeing</kwd><kwd> Mindful attention awareness</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
