Efficacy Of Child Yoga Programme on Quality of Life of Pediatric Oncology Patients.

NCT04932720 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 11814
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Pediatric oncology patients experience physical and psycho-social symptoms that negatively affect their quality of life during treatment. "Yoga" practices, known as a unique physical activity that combines mind-body awareness and breathing exercises to improve the quality of life of pediatric oncology patients, have recently become popular. The study was conducted experimentally in the form of pre-test and post-test with 30 controls, 30 experimental group children who were treated in the Pediatric Oncology / Hematology service of a university hospital and their parents, in order to investigate the effect of children's yoga program on the quality of life of pediatric oncology patients. Ethics committee, institutional and parental consent was obtained. Data were collected using a questionnaire form and the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory "PedsQL (4.0)". Participants filled out the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory "PedsQL (4.0)" Child and Parent Form before the 3-week (6 sessions) yoga program and salivary cortisol samples were taken from the children. These procedures were repeated after the yoga program. Anova test and "Paired sample t" test were used among statistical analysis methods. Statistical significance was accepted as p \<0.05.

Conditions

Pediatric Cancer

Keywords

Child Health and Diseases Nursing; cortisol; quality of life; stress; yoga

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL 4.0) of 8-12 and 13-18 age were used to evaluate the impact of the child yoga program on quality of life of pediatric oncology patients.

  A questionnaire form was used to learn the socio-demographic characteristics of the children and their families. Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL 4.0) of 8-12 and 13-18 age child and parent form were used to evaluate the impact of the child yoga program on quality of life of pediatric oncology patients.It is a versatile inventory of 23 items covering school functions (5 Items), social functions (5 Items), emotional functions (5 Items), physical functions (8 Items). Saliva samples were taken from the experimental and control groups to measure the stress levels of the children with the cortisol kit.

  3 weeks

Study Arms (2)

experimental group

EXPERIMENTAL

Experimental group consisted of children aged 8-18 years, who did not have a different disease accompanying the oncological disease.

Behavioral: chıld yoga programme

control group

NO INTERVENTION

Also the control group consisted of children aged 8-18 years, who did not have a different disease accompanying the oncological disease.

Interventions

chıld yoga programme BEHAVIORAL

Yoga sessions were in the form of 6 sessions and were held as 2 sessions per week. The program was given by an expert yoga instructor who has an international "Yoga Alliance" approved child and adolescent yoga certificate.Consisting of the components of Hatha Yoga (HY), one of the yoga types known and widely practiced all over the world; Sessions consisting of asanas (yoga postures), pranayamas (breathing techniques), relaxation, relaxation exercises and meditation were prepared. Sessions are 45 minutes; For those who are new to yoga for the first 15 minutes; mental and physical preparation; asanas, pranayamas were taught, drama followed by breathing exercises and asanas in the next 30 minutes, relaxation techniques (imaginary journey) and meditation in the last 15 minutes.

experimental group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 8 Years - 18 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Of the participating children, those who did not have any other accompanying disease and did not have developmental disorders were included in the study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Cukurova University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Çukurova University

Adana, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Neoplasms

Study Officials

• Şenay Çetinkaya

  Cukurova University

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal investigator

Model Details: Children who were treated at Mersin University Medical Faculty Hospital were determined by the "simple random selection" method and formed the experimental and control groups.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 8, 2021
• First Posted: June 21, 2021
• Study Start: January 19, 2020
• Primary Completion: May 19, 2021
• Study Completion: May 19, 2021
• Last Updated: August 13, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-06

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)