NCT06405789

The Effect of Yoga on Mindfulness and Perceived Stress

The Effect of Yoga on Mindfulness and Perceived Stress Level in Nursing Students

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 56 (actual)
• Sponsor: Izmir Democracy University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aimed to examine the effect of yoga on mindfulness and perceived stress levels in nursing students. A randomized controlled study was conducted in a nursing department in western Turkey between September 2019 and January 2020. The required institutional permission and ethics committee approval was received. The study participants were 56 nursing students with (intervention group (n:29), control group (n:27). The intervention group received the yoga program for 15 weeks delivered once a week. The control group did not practice yoga.

Detailed description

This study aimed to examine the effect of yoga on mindfulness and perceived stress levels in nursing students in a parallel-group pretest-posttest randomized controlled study design. The required institutional permission and ethics committee approval was received. The study was conducted in a nursing department in western Turkey between September 2019 and January 2020. The study consisted of 56 nursing students with (intervention group (n:29), control group (n:27). The intervention group received the yoga program for 15 weeks delivered once a week face to face. The control group did not practice yoga. The data were collected using "Personnel data form", "Mindful Attention Awareness Scale", "Perceived Stress Scale". The data were collected from the students using the online survey. For data analysis, descriptive statistics, paired sample t test, independent t, Pearson chi-square test were used. At the end of the study, the same yoga session was held with the students in the control group.

Conditions

• Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	yoga practice	The researcher has a yoga certificate before the study. The intervention group participated in 15 weeks of yoga/awareness activities led by the researcher. The yoga curriculum for the use of yoga in the classroom had been previously studied with nursing students and permission was obtained for its use in this study \[11\]. The course content consists of 1.5 hours/per week (theoretical: 30 minutes; practical: 60 minutes) Each yoga session includes 5 minutes of breathing (pranayama) and warming up, 40 minutes of postures (asanas), 5 minutes of breathing (pranayama), 5 minutes of corpse pose (shavasana).In addition, to develop mindfulness, after the class, students were offered daily practices that enable a mindfulness-based approach to life events. The students participated in activities such as yoga practice, breathing and relaxation exercises, meditation practices with instructor notes and resources.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-30
• Primary completion: 2020-01-20
• Completion: 2020-01-30
• First posted: 2024-05-08
• Last updated: 2024-10-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)