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Medical Yoga for Patients With Stress-related Symptoms and Diagnoses
Medical Yoga for Patients With Stress-related Symptoms and Diagnoses in Primary Health Care - a Randomized Controlled Trial
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.
Study Overview
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).
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
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.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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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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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 Names:
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Perceived stress scale
Time Frame: 12 week
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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.
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12 week
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Shirom-Melamed Burnout Questionnaire
Time Frame: 12 week
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12 week
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Elisabeth Westerdahl, PhD, Region Örebro County
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- 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.
- 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.
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Estimate)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Estimate)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- MEDYOG 1
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
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