Healthy University Bern Through Yoga - A Worksite Wellness Intervention

University of Bern

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Behavioral: Yoga attended in person; Behavioral: Yoga attended online

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05101226

Healthy UB through Yoga

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to research the effect of a 8-week long worksite yoga intervention on the perceived health of the University of Bern employees. Furthermore, in light of the current transition to online options, this study will compare the effects of yoga classes attended in person to those attended online.

Full description

After giving informed consent, the participants of the study will be randomly assigned to the intervention or waiting list control group. The intervention group will take part in a 8-week long yoga program before the christmas break, while the waiting list control group will receive the same intervention at the beginning of the new year. For both time periods the participants will be randomly assigned to the in person or the online group.

There will be four measurement times when all the participants will be asked to fill out an online questionnaire before and after both implementations of the intervention. The questionnaires include demographic data, perceived health (SF-8), perceived stress (PSS), well-being (BIT), physical activity questionaire (Godin Leisure-Time Exercise Questionnaire) as well as a questionnaire concerning the satisfaction of the intervention after the participants have actively taken part in the yoga intervention.

Enrollment: 35 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Employee of the University of Bern
• Understanding German
• Ability to participate in 8 yoga classes

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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35 participants in 4 patient groups

Intervention in person

Experimental group

Description:

The participants in this group will receive 8 weeks of yoga classes, that they attend in person.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Yoga attended in person

Intervention online

Experimental group

Description:

The participants in this group will receive 8 weeks of yoga classes, that they attend online via zoom.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Yoga attended online

Waiting list control in person

Other group

Description:

The waiting list control in person group will participate in person in the same yoga classes as the intervention in person group but only after the first group has finished the intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Yoga attended in person

waiting list control online

Other group

Description:

The waiting list control online group will participate online in the same yoga classes as the intervention online group but only after the first group has finished the intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Yoga attended online