The Effects of Yoga in Mental Health Professional Helpers

September 2, 2014 updated by: Shu-Hui Yeh, Chang Bing Show Chwan Memorial Hospital

The Effects of Yoga on Work-related Stress and Stress Adaption Among the Professional Helpers of Psychiatry

This study will investigate if yoga exercises decrease work-related stress and improve stress adaptation in professional health helpers.

Study Overview

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Mental health professional helpers including psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists, social workers and occupational therapists often call upon to maintain a good working attitude and enthusiasm, especially in the face of the evaluators of credential systems as well as supervisors' authorities. The symptoms of work-related stress of professional helpers developed day by days and affected their physical and mental health. Gradually, the professional helpers burned out. Philip Burnard (1991) mentioned professional helpers might self-neglect while helping others. These would lead to over work related stress that directly affects the physical and mental health of the professional helpers, and indirectly affects the organization to take care of the patients and their families.

According to researchers and personal experience, colleagues of mental health care developed work-related stress symptoms, such as insomnia or sleep disorder, the physiological disorders, weight fluctuations, irritable or depressed while taking care of psychiatric patients. They might take tranquilizers in order to maintain the quality of work. On the other hand, in April 2012, the researchers engaged in yoga teaching, assisting mental health care to help others of engaging in yoga practice showed that members perceived positive feelings after the yoga practice: "the mood is more relaxed," "tight body become more relaxed and soft resulting in awareness of tension and unease. This helps to modify long-term adverse stances and reduce body aches and/or sitting." For this reason, researchers began to apply yoga to the release work-related stress and enhance stress adaptation. Professional health helpers look forward to practice yoga exercises to relax work-related stress and improve stress adaptation.

It is a parallel-arm randomized control trial compare the outcome of participants assign to the experimental treatment group (yoga, with 30 participants) with those assign to a control group for 3 months (12 weeks). Experimental group receive regular 60-minutes yoga classes twice a week. We confer the difference of work-related stress relief and stress adaptation and biofeedback improvement after yoga.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

60

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Taiwan
      • Changhua County, Taiwan
        • Recruiting
        • Division of Core Laboratory; Chang Bing Show Chwan Memorial Hospital
        • Contact:

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

20 years to 60 years (Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Mental Health Professional Helpers.
  • Without sport training.
  • Age 20~60.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Musculoskeletal injury.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Basic Science
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Yoga exercise
Participatants will receive regular 60-minutes yoga classes twice a week for 3 months.
Behavioral: Yoga
Yoga group will receive regular 60-minutes yoga classes twice a week for 3 months.
No Intervention: Regular schedule of daily living
Participants will maintain regular schedule as usual.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Decrease work-related stress and improve stress adaptation.
Time Frame: 3 months intervention
Work-related stress and stress adaptation will be assessed by questionnaires including personality, work-related stress and stress adaption scale and biofeedback index using heart rate variability at two different times: (1)baseline data: before yoga program ,(2)outcome data:3 months yoga exercise, right after exercise measures post-test.
3 months intervention

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Chang Bing Show Chwan Memorial Hospital

Investigators

  • Study Director: Shu-Hui Yeh Yeh, PhD, Show Chwan Memorial Hospital & Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology
  • Principal Investigator: Shu-Ling Lin, MS, Chang Bing Show Chwan Memorial Hospital

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

March 1, 2013

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

December 1, 2014

Study Completion (Anticipated)

December 1, 2014

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 27, 2014

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 27, 2014

First Posted (Estimate)

August 28, 2014

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

September 3, 2014

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 2, 2014

Last Verified

September 1, 2014

More Information

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Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 101107

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