NCT05828290

The Effect of Yoga on Gaining Sleep Habits in Children

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

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Akdeniz University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

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.

Conditions

• Yoga
• Preschool Children
• Sleep Habit

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-03-31
• Primary completion: 2023-05-01
• Completion: 2023-06-01
• First posted: 2023-04-25
• Last updated: 2023-04-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)