Effect of Yoga@Work Program

February 20, 2019 updated by: NMP Medical Research Institute

Effectiveness of Yoga@Work Program on Neck and Shoulder Pain in Information Technology (IT) Employees

Employees working in IT industry are prone to develop musculoskeletal pain,specifically back, neck and shoulder pain. This study evaluates the effectiveness of work-site yoga intervention, Yoga@work on neck and shoulder pain in IT employees.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

132

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

  • India
    • Rajasthan
      • Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
        • NMP Medical Reserach Institute

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

18 years to 50 years (Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • IT companies employee
  • Full time employment
  • Neck and Shoulder Pain
  • pain of at least 3 months duration
  • able to comply with intervention schedule

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Pregnancy
  • Refuse to give informed consent
  • spinal fracture
  • recent cervical spine or shoulder surgery
  • recent (3 months) chemotherapy/radiotherapy/ intervention

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: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Yoga Group
Participants in the intervention group engaged in a 8-week yoga program delivered at their place of work (IT companies). Sessions were group-based, prescribed three sessions per week during break time (30-mins).
Other: Yoga@work
Each session included warm-up practices(for the large joints, spine, and extremities), Physical postures (Asana), breathing exercises (pranayama) and supine meditation/relaxation (savasana).
Other Names:
  • Yoga
No Intervention: Wait-list Group
Participants in Wait-List control were not given any intervention. 8-weeks, group followed usual break time.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Visual analogue scale for pain
Time Frame: change from baseline to 8 weeks
100-mm visual analog scale (VAS), horizontal line ranging from 0mm (no pain) to 100mm (worst imaginable pain).
change from baseline to 8 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Neck disability index (NDI)
Time Frame: Change from baseline to 8-weeks
The NDI is a standard instrument for measuring self-rated disability due to neck pain.10-item, 50-point index; each of the 10 items is scored from 0 - 5. Higher points represent worse pain
Change from baseline to 8-weeks
Shoulder pain disability index
Time Frame: Change from baseline to 8-weeks
The SPADI is a 13-item patient completed instrument. Its categories include pain (5 items) and disability (8 items), overall total scores range from 0 to 130. Higher score represent worse disability
Change from baseline to 8-weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

NMP Medical Research Institute

Collaborators

Warwick Research Services
Yog-Kulam

Investigators

  • Study Director: Neha Sharma, Yog-Kulam
  • Study Chair: Durga Prasad Sharma, International Labour Organization, UN
  • Principal Investigator: Divya Gaur, NMP Medical Research Institute, India

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 (Actual)

July 12, 2018

Primary Completion (Actual)

December 12, 2018

Study Completion (Actual)

January 28, 2019

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

February 9, 2019

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 11, 2019

First Posted (Actual)

February 15, 2019

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

February 21, 2019

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 20, 2019

Last Verified

February 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • NMP 0198

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

Undecided

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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