NCT01168648

Yoga for Stress Management in Health Care Personnel

Yoga for Stress Management in Health Care Personnel and Its Relation to the Hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal(HPA)Axis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 71 (actual)
• Sponsor: Karolinska Institutet · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate if yoga can be an effective stress management technique for health care personnel.

Detailed description

Stress, both job related and personal, is an increasing problem in the health care sector. Yoga is said to have a good stress-reducing effect. The participants will provide blood, urine, and saliva samples. They will take part in two different stress tests. They will also fill in various qualitative questionnaires, including the Swedish questionnaire on health related quality of life (SWEDQUAL), Antonovsky's sense of coherence scale (KASAM), and the Job stress survey (JSS), both before the study starts and after 3 months of participation.

Conditions

• Yoga
• Stress, Psychological
• Stress, Physiological

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Yoga as stress management	Yoga specially designed to reduce stress is practiced for approximately 30 minutes at least three times a week for three months, once in a group session led by a trained yoga instructor and twice or more at home. The yoga techniques used are physical postures or movements, meditation and breathing exercises. Every time they do the techniques, participants fill in a form detailing how they feel before and after and providing information on the experience of doing the exercises.
OTHER	Rest without using any relaxation technique	The participants rest at home at least 30 minutes, at least three times a week for three months and without using any relaxation technique

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-08-01
• Primary completion: 2005-05-01
• Completion: 2005-05-01
• First posted: 2010-07-23
• Last updated: 2010-07-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden