Yoga, Mother's Stress and Baby

Examining the Effect of Yoga on Maternal Stress and Sleep Quality of Mother and Baby, Mother's Feeding Attitude and Baby's Feeding Behavior: Randomized Controlled Study.

The aim of this study is to examine the effects of yoga on the stress of mothers with babies with sleep and feeding problems, the mother-infant relationship, and the sleep and nutrition of the mother and the baby. 55 mothers with babies with sleep and feeding problems were included in the study. Mothers were randomly divided into two groups: yoga (n=29) and control group (n=26). Yoga training was applied to 29 mothers in the study group via video conferencing, 2 days a week, 1 hour a day for 8 weeks, while the mothers in the control group were given second evaluations 8 weeks after the first evaluation, without any intervention. Mothers were evaluated with the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) for stress levels, with Parent-Child Containing Function Scale for the mother-infant relationship, with the Infancy and Early Childhood Feeding Process Mother'sAttitudes Scale for their attitudes towards the feeding process of their babies, and with Attitude Scale for Healthy Nutrition (ASHN) for their own nutrition attitudes, with Pittsburg Sleep Quality (PSQI) for sleep quality and babies with Infancy Period Adaptive Eating Behavior Scale for feeding problems, with Brief Infant/Child Sleep Questionnaire (BISQ) for sleep problems.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Mother-Child Relations
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: yoga; Other: control

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 55
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Sarıyer
    • Istanbul, Sarıyer, Turkey, 34460
      • Ayşe Nur Ozan

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

Parents living together The child must have at least one of the 3 problems listed below on the Infant/Child Sleep Problem Brief Diagnostic Form.

1. Waking up more than three times a night
2. Waking up at night and being sleepless for more than 1 hour
3. Total sleep time is less than 9 hours Having a score above 25 on the Infancy Adaptive Eating Behavior Scale

Exclusion Criteria:

The child has any developmental, neurological, orthopedic and/or psychiatric diagnosis Presence of a condition that prevents the mother from exercising (neurological, cardiovascular, orthopedic, etc.)

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Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: yoga; Yoga will be practiced 1 hour a day, 2 days a week for 8 weeks, for a total of 16 hours.	Other: yoga; 1 hour yoga practice 2 days a week for 8 weeks
Placebo Comparator: control; No intervention is applied for 8 weeks.	Other: control; no intervention for 8 weeks

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)	Evaluated for mother's stress level. It evaluates the participants on a 5-point Likert-type scale ranging from "Never (0)" to "Very often (4).	At the beginning and end of 8 weeks
Infancy and Early Childhood Feeding Process Mother's Attitudes Scale	Evaluated Mother's attitudes towards the feeding process of their babies	At the beginning and end of 8 weeks
Pittsburg Sleep Quality (PSQI)	Evaluated mother's sleep quality	At the beginning and end of 8 weeks
Period Adaptive Eating Behavior Scale	Evaluated babies feeding problems	At the beginning and end of 8 weeks
Brief Infant/Child Sleep Questionnaire (BISQ)	Evaluated babies sleep problems. If at least one of the following three conditions occurs, it is determined that the baby/child has a sleep problem; 1) The baby/child wakes up more than three times a night, 2) The baby/child wakes up at night and remains sleepless for more than an hour, or, 3) The baby/child's total sleep time is less than 9 hours.	At the beginning and end of 8 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hacettepe University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): November 1, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): February 1, 2024
• Study Completion (Actual): February 15, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 2, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 5, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): April 11, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 11, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 5, 2024
• Last Verified: April 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: sleep; nutrition; stress; yoga; mothers; baby
• Other Study ID Numbers: GO21/1011

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