Medical Yoga for Patients With Stress-related Symptoms and Diagnoses

NCT01604707 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: MEDYOG 1
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 44
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Stress; Anxiety; Depression

Keywords

stress; anxiety; depression; quality of life

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Perceived stress scale

  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.

  12 week

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Shirom-Melamed Burnout Questionnaire

  12 week

Study Arms (2)

Control group

NO INTERVENTION

Standard care

Medical Yoga

EXPERIMENTAL

Group training with medical yoga in primary health care.

Other: Medical Yoga

Interventions

Medical Yoga OTHER

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.

Also known as: Medical Yoga group

Medical Yoga

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• 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.

You may not qualify if:

• 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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Region Örebro County: lead

Related Publications (2)

• Kohn M, Persson Lundholm U, Bryngelsson IL, Anderzen-Carlsson A, Westerdahl E. Medical yoga for patients with stress-related symptoms and diagnoses in primary health care: a randomized controlled trial. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2013;2013:215348. doi: 10.1155/2013/215348. Epub 2013 Feb 26.

  PMID: 23533465 RESULT

• Anderzen-Carlsson A, Persson Lundholm U, Kohn M, Westerdahl E. Medical yoga: another way of being in the world-a phenomenological study from the perspective of persons suffering from stress-related symptoms. Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being. 2014 Jan 9;9:23033. doi: 10.3402/qhw.v9.23033. eCollection 2014.

  PMID: 24434055 RESULT

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Anxiety Disorders; Depression

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Disorders; Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior

Study Officials

• Elisabeth Westerdahl, PhD

  Region Örebro County

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: PhD, Registered Physiotherapist

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 15, 2012
• First Posted: May 24, 2012
• Study Start: March 1, 2011
• Primary Completion: May 1, 2012
• Study Completion: May 1, 2012
• Last Updated: October 4, 2016

Record last verified: 2016-10

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share