The Effect of Yoga on Gaining Sleep Habits in Children (YPK)

The Effect of the Little Yogis do Yoga Program on Sleeping Habits in Pre-school Children: Randomized Controlled Trial

This study was planned to determine the effect of the "Little Yogis Doing Yoga" Program, which will be created within the scope of the research, on getting children aged 5-6 years old to sleep habits. This study was planned in a pretest, posttest design, follow-up, randomized controlled study. The sample of the study will consist of 36 children (18 children in the intervention group, 18 children in the control group) in the 5-6 age group in Antalya between 15 March and 15 June 2023. The "Little Yogis Doing Yoga" Program, which was created within the scope of the research, will be applied to the children in the intervention group in two groups, two days a week, for 4 weeks, 30 minutes each, by the researcher who received child yoga specialization training. Data will be collected with Child and Family Information Form and Child Sleep Habits Questionnaire-CSHQ). CSHQ, T0-Pretest (Before the Program "Little Yogis Doing Yoga"), T1-Interim follow-up (after the program ends) and T2-Posttest (1 month after the program is completed) will be filled by the parents. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 24.0 package program will be used in the analysis of the data.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Yoga; Sleep Habit; Preschool Children
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Child Yoga

Detailed Description

Preschool (three-six years) is a period in which the physical, psychomotor, social-emotional, cognitive and language development of the child is completed to a large extent. In this period when the growth-development process is very important, healthy and regular sleep plays an active role in many developmental areas of children, especially in brain development. For this reason, examining and arranging the sleep habits of children in the preschool period is of great importance for the healthy completion of the process. The aim of this study is to determine the sleep habits of children in the 5-6 age group and to determine the effect of children's yoga on these habits. This study was planned to determine the effect of the "Little Yogis Doing Yoga" Program, which will be created within the scope of the research, on instilling sleep habits in children aged 5-6 years.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 36
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Aysegul I Dalgic, Prof.; Phone Number: 02423106124; Email: aisler@akdeniz.edu.tr
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Fatma Nur Ünver, RN; Phone Number: 05079706574; Email: unvernur16@gmail.com

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Konyaaltı
    • Antalya, Konyaaltı, Turkey, 07058
      • Recruiting
      • Aysegul ISLER DALGIC
      • Contact: Aysegul ISLER DALGIC, Prof. Dr.; Phone Number: 6124 +90 242 310 6103; Email: aisler@akdeniz.edu.tr

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• 5-6 years old
• No school attendance problems
• Those who have the cognitive ability to carry out the commands given during child yoga.
• Having no physical problems that may prevent active participation in children's yoga
• Children who do not have an obstacle to communication (sight, hearing problems, etc.) and whose parents' consent to participate in the study are approved

Exclusion Criteria:

• Children who are actively attending any children's yoga program

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Yoga Group; The "Little Yogis Doing Yoga" Program was started to be implemented by the researcher for 4 weeks, 2 days a week for 30 minutes, separately for each group, in a way to form 2 groups.	Behavioral: Child Yoga; The children's yoga consists of compositions such as playing, stories, postures, breathing exercises, imitations things in nature, memory games, music, dance and daydreaming.
No Intervention: Control Group; Children in the control group will continue their routine education at school.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ)	To gain children the ability to sleep habits. The Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ)- Abbreviated Form developed by Owens et al. consists of 33 items in total. In the scale, bedtime resistance (1,3,4,5,6,8 items), delay in falling asleep (2nd item), sleep duration (9,10,11 items), sleep anxiety (5,7,8, 21st items), night awakenings (items 16,24,25), parasomnias (12,13,14,15,17,22,23), disruption of breathing during sleep (items 18,19,20), day Eight subscales were defined as sleepiness (items 26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33). A total of 41 points is considered the cutoff point, and values above this are considered 'clinically significant'.	CSHQ score will evaluate at baseline
Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ)	To gain children the ability to sleep habits. The Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ)- Abbreviated Form developed by Owens et al. consists of 33 items in total. In the scale, bedtime resistance (1,3,4,5,6,8 items), delay in falling asleep (2nd item), sleep duration (9,10,11 items), sleep anxiety (5,7,8, 21st items), night awakenings (items 16,24,25), parasomnias (12,13,14,15,17,22,23), disruption of breathing during sleep (items 18,19,20), day Eight subscales were defined as sleepiness (items 26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33). A total of 41 points is considered the cutoff point, and values above this are considered 'clinically significant'.	CSHQ score will evaluate one month later
Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ)	To gain children the ability to sleep habits. The Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ)- Abbreviated Form developed by Owens et al. consists of 33 items in total. In the scale, bedtime resistance (1,3,4,5,6,8 items), delay in falling asleep (2nd item), sleep duration (9,10,11 items), sleep anxiety (5,7,8, 21st items), night awakenings (items 16,24,25), parasomnias (12,13,14,15,17,22,23), disruption of breathing during sleep (items 18,19,20), day Eight subscales were defined as sleepiness (items 26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33). A total of 41 points is considered the cutoff point, and values above this are considered 'clinically significant'.	CSHQ score will evaluate two month later

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Akdeniz University
• Investigators: Study Chair: Fatma Nur Ünver, RN, Akdeniz University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): March 31, 2023
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): May 1, 2023
• Study Completion (Anticipated): June 1, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 12, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 12, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): April 25, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 28, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 27, 2023
• Last Verified: April 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: KAEK-34

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No