Yoga Therapy for Adolescents With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Status: Completed

Conditions: Yoga Therapy; Adolescent Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Treatments: Behavioral: yoga

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03286933

CHLA-17-00037

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to better understand the effects of a yoga program on adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). The investigators want to learn whether or not a yoga therapy based program will decrease pain and improve quality of life in patients with JIA.

This is an 8-week program with home program of online videos.

Full description

This is an 8-week program consisting of weekly yoga therapy classes in a public studio. The classes are led by a pediatric occupational therapist who is also a certified internationally accredited yoga therapist (C-IAYT). The initial and final sessions will include an Rheumatologist MD evaluation including a physician global assessment and joint damage assessment (JADI) and visual assessment (VAS). A Visual Analog Pain Scale will and Peds Quality of Life Questionnaire-Arthritis Module 4.0 will be administered. Each yoga class is 75 minutes to include a set-sequence of postures including breathing exercises and final corpse pose (final relaxation).

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adolescents with formal diagnosis of JIA, speak and understand English, can get on/off floor independently.

Exclusion criteria

• Dependent on assistive device for ambulation; does not understand English, does not have a diagnosis of JIA.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 1 patient group

Yoga therapy intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will participate in weekly yoga therapy sessions and have the opportunity to use the home video online.

Treatment:

Behavioral: yoga