Medical Yoga for Patients With Stress-related Symptoms and Diagnoses
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Purpose
Background An increasing number of patients are suffering from stress-related symptoms and diseases. No scientific studies have examined the effects of Medical yoga on stress-related symptoms in patients in primary care. The purpose of this study was to evaluate Medical yoga treatment in patients with stress-related symptoms and diagnosis in primary health care.
Methods A randomized, controlled study was performed at a primary health care centre in Sweden from March to June 2011. Patients were randomly allocated to a control group receiving standard care, or a yoga group treated with Medical yoga for 1 hour, once a week, over a 12-week period in addition to the standard care. A total of 37 men and women, mean age 53±12 years, seeking care for stress-related symptoms at the primary health care centre were included and followed up after the 12-week study period. General stress level (measured using Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)), burnout (Shirom-Melamed Burnout Questionnaire (SMBQ)), anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)), insomnia severity (Insomnia Severity Index (ISI)), pain (visual analogue scale (VAS)) and overall health status (Euro Quality of Life-VAS (EQ-VAS)) were measured before and after 12 weeks.
| Condition | Intervention |
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Stress Anxiety Depression |
Other: Medical Yoga |
| Study Type: | Interventional |
| Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Single Blind (Investigator) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
| Official Title: | Medical Yoga for Patients With Stress-related Symptoms and Diagnoses in Primary Health Care - a Randomized Controlled Trial |
- Perceived stress scale [ Time Frame: 12 week ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]The Perceived Stress Scale is a 10-item self report questionnaire that measures persons' evaluation of the stressfulness of the situations in the past month of their lives. Cohen, S., & Williamson, G. (1988). PSS-10 scores are obtained by reversing the scores on the four positive items, e.g., 0=4, 1=3, 2=2, etc. and then summing across all 10 items. Items 4,5, 7, and 8 are the positively stated items. Scores can range from 0 to 40, with higher scores indicating greater stress.
- Shirom-Melamed Burnout Questionnaire [ Time Frame: 12 week ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
| Enrollment: | 44 |
| Study Start Date: | March 2011 |
| Study Completion Date: | May 2012 |
| Primary Completion Date: | May 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
| Arms | Assigned Interventions |
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No Intervention: Control group
Standard care
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Experimental: Medical Yoga
Group training with medical yoga in primary health care.
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Other: Medical Yoga
Patients were randomly allocated to a control group receiving standard care, or a yoga group treated with Medical yoga for 1 hour, once a week, over a 12-week period in addition to the standard care.
Other Name: Medical Yoga group
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Detailed Description:
Main outcome:
The Perceived Stress Scale is a 10-item self report questionnaire that measures persons' evaluation of the stressfulness of the situations in the past month of their lives. The citation for the 10-item scale is Cohen, S., & Williamson, G. (1988). Perceived stress in a probability sample of the United States. In S. Spacapan & S. Oskamp (Eds.). The Perceived Stress Scale is the only empirically established index of general stress appraisal. "The PSS measures the degree to which situations in one's life are appraised as stressful" (Cohen, et al., 1983; p. 385).
PSS-10 scores are obtained by reversing the scores on the four positive items, e.g., 0=4, 1=3, 2=2, etc. and then summing across all 10 items. Items 4,5, 7, and 8 are the positively stated items. Scores can range from 0 to 40, with higher scores indicating greater stress.
The PSS is not a diagnostic instrument, so there are no cut-offs. There are only comparisons between people in a given sample. There are some normative data on the PSS based on a 1983 Harris Poll of a representative U.S. sample. These data may be helpful in providing comparisons, but they are over 20 years old. See: Cohen, S., & Williamson, G. (1988).
Eligibility| Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
| Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
| Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- The patients had sought treatment at the primary health centre during the previous 6 months.
- The stress-related symptoms included fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, depression, hypertension, and musculoskeletal discomfort in the neck and shoulders.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Inability to understand instructions, interpretation needs or physical or mental inability to carry out the Medical yoga exercises, such as mental retardation or dementia, and severe physical or mental illness.
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| Responsible Party: | Elisabeth Westerdahl, PhD, Registered Physiotherapist, University Hospital Orebro |
| ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01604707 History of Changes |
| Other Study ID Numbers: | MEDYOG 1 |
| Study First Received: | May 15, 2012 |
| Last Updated: | May 24, 2012 |
| Health Authority: | Sweden: Swedish Research Council |
Keywords provided by University Hospital Orebro:
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stress anxiety depression quality of life |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
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Anxiety Disorders Depression Depressive Disorder |
Mental Disorders Behavioral Symptoms Mood Disorders |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on June 18, 2013