Yoga for Adolescents

Baskent University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Yoga

Treatments: Other: High Density Exercise Training Program - Yoga

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04658563

KA18 / 345

Details and patient eligibility

About

Purpose: Specific effects of high-density Hatha Yoga(HY) training in adolescents have not yet been clarified. Aim of our study is to investigate the effects of high-density HY education on physical fitness, pulmonary function and quality of life in healthy adolescents. Methods: 28 female adolescents will be randomly divided into two groups as yoga training and control groups. Training group will receive high-density HY training for 8 weeks, two days a week under the supervision of a physiotherapist and one day a week home program. Control group will not receive any exercise. Flexibility of individuals will be determined by sit-reach, back scratching, lateral flexion tests; muscular endurance by sit-ups, sit down-stand up on chair tests, balance by time up-go test; cardiorespiratory capacity by incremental shuttle walking test(ISWT) and respiratory functions by spirometry, quality of life will be determined by with the Quality of Life Scale for Children.

Enrollment: 28 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 14 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Female adolescents between the ages of 14 and 18

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals with recent muscular skeletal, neuromuscular and chronic systemic diseases that could prevent exercise

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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28 participants in 2 patient groups

Group 1: Yoga

Experimental group

Description:

High-density HY training; average 90-110 minutes, 2 sessions per week under the supervision of the physiotherapist, once a week as a home program, will be applied for a total of 8 weeks to the first group.

Treatment:

Other: High Density Exercise Training Program - Yoga

Group 2: Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Individuals in the second group will not included in any exercise training program