The Effect of Yoga on Mindfulness and Perceived Stress

Izmir Democracy University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stress

Treatments: Other: yoga practice

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06405789

IDU-SBF-ÖE-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 56 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• being a first-year class nursing student
• older than 18 ages
• volunteering to participate
• giving consent

Exclusion criteria

• with a disability to practice yoga, hearing, and visual impairment
• unwillingness to continue participating in the study and school absenteeism

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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56 participants in 2 patient groups

intervention

Experimental group

Description:

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. 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.

Treatment:

Other: yoga practice

control

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention