Yoga for Family Caregivers of Alzheimers Disease Patient

Anxiety Clinical Trial

Official title:

A Yoga and Compassion Meditation Program Improve Quality of Life and Self-compassion in Family Caregivers of Alzheimer's Disease Patients: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02563483
• Other study ID #: yoga caregivers
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 28, 2015
• Last updated: September 29, 2015
• Start date: September 2007
• Est. completion date: November 2009

Study information

• Verified date: September 2015
• Source: Federal University of São Paulo
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Brazil: Ministry of Health
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study evaluates the effects of the practice of yoga in combination with compassion meditation on the quality of life, attention, vitality and self-compassion of family caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Description:

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive brain disorder that involves the loss of reasoning, memory, language and the ability to live independently. Thus, patients who suffer from this disease often require care from another person and must adapt to ensure their health, functional capacity and safety. Caregivers have a poor quality of life due to the physical and psychological burden of caregiving. Such physical, psychological, social and financial burden can increase the risk of death. Within this scenario, techniques such as yoga and meditation have emerged as low-cost interventions that offer little or no risk to the practitioners. Yoga seeks to develop health and attention through physical postures, breathing exercises and formal meditative practices.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 46
• Est. completion date: November 2009
• Est. primary completion date: February 2008
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• be a family caregiver of Alzheimer disease patient

• age over 18 years

• completed at least the primary education level

• at least at the phase of stress resistance according to Lipp's Inventory of Stress Symptoms for adults

Exclusion Criteria:

• patient with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

• alcohol use (more than 5 drinks per week) or use of drugs-of-abuse;

• suffer from Cushing's syndrome

• under treatment with topical, nasal or any form of steroids within the last 30 days

• practice yoga, meditation or similar techniques

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Alzheimer Disease
• Anxiety
• Compassion
• Stress

Intervention

Behavioral:
• yoga and compassion meditation program
25 min of physical exercise, holding each pose (stretching exercise) for an average of 1 min and 30 s; 25 min of breathing exercises and 25 min of meditation.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Federal University of São Paulo

References & Publications (1)

Danucalov MA, Kozasa EH, Ribas KT, Galduróz JC, Garcia MC, Verreschi IT, Oliveira KC, Romani de Oliveira L, Leite JR. A yoga and compassion meditation program reduces stress in familial caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2013;2013:513149. doi: 10.1155/2013/513149. Epub 2013 Apr 18. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	change in cortisol	Saliva samples were collected for analysis of cortisol	baseline, 8 weeks	No
Secondary	change in stress	Lipp Stress Inventory	baseline, 8 weeks	No
Secondary	change in depression	Beck Depression Inventory	baseline, 8 weeks	No
Secondary	change in anxiety	Beck Anxiety Inventory	baseline, 8 weeks	No
Secondary	change in quality of life	WHOQOL-bref (World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire with 26 questions)	baseline, 8 weeks	No
Secondary	change in vitality	Subjective Vitality Scales	baseline, 8 weeks	No
Secondary	change in attention	Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale	baseline, 8 weeks	No
Secondary	change in self-compassion	Self-Compassion Scale	baseline, 8 weeks	No

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