Yoga for Stress Management in Health Care Personnel

Stress, Psychological Clinical Trial

Official title:

Yoga for Stress Management in Health Care Personnel and Its Relation to the Hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal(HPA)Axis

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01168648
• Other study ID #: Ekhagastiftelsen 2001-5
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 22, 2010
• Last updated: July 22, 2010
• Start date: August 2003
• Est. completion date: May 2005

Study information

• Verified date: July 2010
• Source: Karolinska Institutet
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Sweden: Regional Ethical Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate if yoga can be an effective stress management technique for health care personnel.

Description:

Stress, both job related and personal, is an increasing problem in the health care sector. Yoga is said to have a good stress-reducing effect.

The participants will provide blood, urine, and saliva samples. They will take part in two different stress tests. They will also fill in various qualitative questionnaires, including the Swedish questionnaire on health related quality of life (SWEDQUAL), Antonovsky's sense of coherence scale (KASAM), and the Job stress survey (JSS), both before the study starts and after 3 months of participation.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 71
• Est. completion date: May 2005
• Est. primary completion date: May 2005
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• BMI 18-30

• healthy

• work in the health care sector

Exclusion Criteria:

• medication, including contraceptives and all medications or topical skin preparations with cortisone in any form (exception: hormone replacement therapy for hypothyroidism were included if their hormone levels were within the normal range)

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Stress, Physiological
• Stress, Psychological
• Yoga

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Yoga as stress management
Yoga specially designed to reduce stress is practiced for approximately 30 minutes at least three times a week for three months, once in a group session led by a trained yoga instructor and twice or more at home. The yoga techniques used are physical postures or movements, meditation and breathing exercises. Every time they do the techniques, participants fill in a form detailing how they feel before and after and providing information on the experience of doing the exercises.

Other:
• Rest without using any relaxation technique
The participants rest at home at least 30 minutes, at least three times a week for three months and without using any relaxation technique

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Sweden	Center for Family and Community Medicine, KI	Huddinge	Stockholm

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Karolinska Institutet	Ekhaga Foundation Stockholm Sweden, Stockholm County Council, Sweden

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Reduced cortisol secretion		Three months	No
Secondary	Reduced stress measured by qualitative questionnaires (SWEQUAL, JSS, KASAM)		Three months	No