Yoga on Stress Management in Adolescents

Karabuk University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Adolescent Problem Behavior; Adolescent Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Yoga Based Stress Management Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05324709

2022-799

Details and patient eligibility

About

The World Health Organization (WHO, 2013) defined the 10-19 age group as "adolescent" and the 15-24 age group as "youth". Adolescence period; It is a period of rapid growth, development and maturation in terms of physical, mental, biochemical and social aspects.10-20% of children and adolescents living in the world have mental health diseases such as generalized anxiety disorders, depression, eating disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorders.In adolescents, yoga is practiced as a relaxing tool to reduce stress, especially for exam anxiety.In Turkey, there are no yoga-based experimental studies to prevent anxiety, stress and depression in adolescents.

Full description

The aim of the study is to examine the effect of the Yoga-Based Stress Management Program on the ability to cope with stress in adolescents.Stress management sessions of the Adolescent Health Promotion-Physical Activity, Nutrition, Stress Management (COPE HEALTH-TEEN) program will be used in the stress management training to be explained in the program. There will also be yin yoga exercises.

The general population of the research will be high school senior students in Safranbolu district of Karabük province in the 2021-2022 academic year. First of all, the stress, anxiety and depression levels of the adolescents will be calculated. The research will be carried out in a total of 14 high schools. Each school will be determined as a "cluster" and 7 experimental and 7 control schools will be randomly selected. Simple random draw method will be applied in the selection of experimental and control schools. Adolescents who meet the inclusion criteria will be included in the study.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• High school senior student

  • Those who volunteered to participate in the research and
  • Students who are allowed to participate in the research by their parents

Exclusion criteria

• Students with any physical or mental disability • Low levels of perceived stress, anxiety, depression

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental

Experimental group

Description:

The program will be carried out one day a week for four weeks. Yin yoga practices will be applied in the program. Each session will last a total of 40 minutes. The first 20 minutes of yin yoga sessions. Participants will be given training on stress management, breathing and yin yoga. Afterwards, each session of Yin yoga exercises will be started with pranayama (breathing) exercises for 2 minutes, followed by Suryanamaskar-A (Sun Salute-A) for warming up and Yin yoga exercises will be done. The program will be completed by applying the focus on Moment in the last 5 minute. In addition, the participants will be given homework related to the subject of each week. The training booklet will be distributed to the participants before the program. Stress management sessions of the Adolescent Health Promotion-Physical Activity, Nutrition, Stress Management (COPE HEALTH- TEEN ) program will be used in the stress management training to be explained in the program.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Yoga Based Stress Management Program

No Intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will be given 60 minutes of "in the moment" and stress management training.