NCT05503680

The Effect of Yoga for Stress Among HIV Patients in Indonesia

The Effect of a Yoga Intervention for Reducing Stress Among People Living With HIV in Indonesia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 66 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is aimed to evaluate the effects of yoga intervention versus usual care (control group) for reducing stress among people living with HIV in Indonesia.

Detailed description

Introduction: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) continues to be a public health challenge for four decades after the disease appeared. Stress is one of the most common mental health problems that occur among people living with HIV. Yoga is increasingly popular as one of the complementary therapies in health care systems including in nursing. Moreover, much evidence shows that yoga is a promising modality to be used to treat stress and to maintain the health and wellbeing of PLWH. Purpose: The primary objective in this study is to evaluate the effects of yoga intervention versus usual care (control group) for reducing stress among people living with HIV in Indonesia. Methods: This study will use a parallel group randomized controlled trial (RCT) design, with single blinding, and repeated measures. Sample will be divided into a yoga intervention group and a routine care group as the control group. In this study, the independent variable is defined as yoga intervention, and the dependent variable is stress. In total, participants who will participate is sixty-six, thirty-three participants in yoga group and thirty-three in control group. The Generalized Estimating Equation will be performed for the data analysis.

Conditions

• Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Yoga	In this study, the researcher will provide participants with two month of Hatha yoga as an experimental intervention for managing stress. All participants who belong to the intervention group will be required to complete 120 minutes per week of home-based, online streaming yoga for eight weeks with our certified yoga instructor. The intervention will be conducted online by Zoom video; participants will be sent a link to join a scheduled live online yoga session twice every week. The data collection will be undertaken in three times: baseline (before the intervention begins), posttest one ( after two month intervention), and posttest two (one month after yoga intervention finish) to evaluate the lasting effect of yoga.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-08-01
• Primary completion: 2022-12-18
• Completion: 2022-12-18
• First posted: 2022-08-17
• Last updated: 2023-01-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Indonesia