Pranayama and Adolescent Well-Being: A Structured Evidence Review and the Case for Evaluating Breath Practice as an Independent Intervention
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH CARE September 18, 2026 Bindu Madhavi Chintha And D. Ashalatha preprint
ABSTRACT Background: Breath regulation is delivered to adolescents in a growing number of school programs, yet the evidence base supporting it is usually cited in narrative form rather than assembled in a way that shows what each study established and what it left open. At the same time, large recent meta-analyses of school-based mindfulness have reported null or very small effects, and those...