Yoga as Mindful Movement: A Randomized Controlled Trial

University at Buffalo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Developmental Disability

Treatments: Behavioral: Yoga as Mindful Movement; Behavioral: Adapted Physical Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07088003

UBuffalo

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aimed to close an existing research gap by exploring the impact of a school-based mindful yoga program, Yoga as Mindful Movement (YMM), on foundational motor skills, social-emotional competence, classroom behavior, attention, and impulse control of students with various developmental disabilities in kindergarten, first-, and second-grade (K-2).

Enrollment: 47 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 7 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: (a) Actively attending the participating school (indicating the presence of at least one developmental disability), (b) enrolled in kindergarten, first, or second grade, (c) part of a 6:1:3 classroom, (d) between the ages of 5 and 7, and (e) English-speaking

Exclusion Criteria: (a) Participant's family opted them out of the study, (b) participants was absent for three consecutive Yoga as Mindful Movement (YMM) classes

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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47 participants in 2 patient groups

Yoga as Mindful Movement

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Yoga as Mindful Movement

Adapted Physical Education

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Adapted Physical Education