NCT02899117

Yoga Intervention to Improve Pediatric Cancer Patients' Sleep & Life Quality and Parents' Well-Being

Pilot Yoga Intervention to Improve Pediatric Cancer Patients' Sleep & Life Quality and Parents' Well-Being

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 23 (actual)
• Sponsor: Connecticut Children's Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The proposed project will examine feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a yoga intervention in the pediatric oncology unit at Connecticut Children's Medical Center (CCMC) and includes two parts: (1) a survey of children and parents regarding preferences (e.g., convenient days/times), experiences and expectations regarding yoga (including barriers and positive expectancies) and (2) an eight week clinical trial of a yoga intervention in 10 pairs of children and parents.

Detailed description

The specific aims and hypotheses for this seed grant are to collect and assess data on: Aim 1 feasibility - perceived barriers/solutions, interest and accrual rates, attendance per session, participant retention, evidence of institutional support and resource commitment Hypothesis 1: A yoga intervention is feasible among pediatric oncology patients and their parents; (2) preliminary efficacy - including effect sizes for calculating power Hypothesis 2a: A yoga intervention improves pediatric oncology patients' fatigue, QOL, and sleep. Hypothesis 2b: A yoga intervention improves parental QOL and caregiver burden. We will be using the following questionnaires and scales to help answer the quesitons related to the hypotheses and aims: PedsQL 4.0 PedsQL 3.0 Cancer Module The Fatigue Scale SleepDiary Actigraphy data. Child Home Yoga Practice Diary Satisfaction survey Questionnaires noted below are given only to the parents: SF-12 Zarit Caregiver Burden Index Yoga Satisfaction Survey Study participants will have 4 yoga sessions and the questionnaires and surveys are done prior to the first yoga session and after the last yoga session. The yoga sessions are created with both the study participant and a certified yoga instructor. The patients are given the yoga routine to practice at home at their leisure.

Conditions

• Neoplasms

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Yoga	There are 4 yoga sessions completed with a certified instructor during cancer treatment

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-08-01
• Primary completion: 2016-10-01
• Completion: 2017-01-01
• First posted: 2016-09-14
• Last updated: 2017-02-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States