Effects of Hatha-Yoga on caregivers of children and adolescents with Cancer
- Conditions
- Physical and emotional exhaustion in caregivers of children and adolescents with cancer.F01.470.132F01.470F02.463.551F01.058
- Registration Number
- RBR-3vz3nd
- Lead Sponsor
- Centro de Ciências da Saúde da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Data analysis completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Accompanying children and adolescents admitted to HINSG as new cases of cancer; minimum attendance period of 40 weekly hours; absence of prior contact with yoga, meditation or related techniques.
Volunteers who did not agree to participate in the study or who showed interest were very resistant to being absent from their caregivers, or even if they presented psychic limitation to answer the questions of the initial interview. Cases of hospitalization or deaths in a very short period precluding the invitation to participate in the study; hospitalizations with advanced and irreversible impairment of the patient's clinical condition, that is, in palliative care; and the cases of prior knowledge of the volunteer about the diagnosis of the assisted.
In the cases of relay of caregivers in care of the same child or adolescent only the participation of a volunteer was allowed, whose choice to participate in the study was based on the above criteria. When caretakers in relay were able to participate in the study a draw was held between them. However, hospitalizations of children or adolescents with many caregivers in relay with uncertainty of a regular return to care were excluded from the study, configuring the non-inclusion of the volunteer during the study period.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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