Effects of a four-week yoga intervention on stress, well-being and quality of life in parents of children who are diagnosed with cancer
- Conditions
- parents of children who are diagnosed with cancerC00-D48Neoplasms
- Registration Number
- DRKS00030030
- Lead Sponsor
- Deutsche Sporthochschule KölnInstitut für Kreislaufforschugn und Sportmedizin, Abteilung Molekulare und Zelluläre Sportmedizin
- Brief Summary
Parents of children diagnosed with cancer are exposed to high psychological stress. A yoga program (4 weeks, 3 times a week, supervised and self-administered training) offered by the German Sport University Cologne at the Children's Hospital Amsterdamer Straße Cologne aims to provide support to those affected. Based on 6 interviews, it was found that the yoga training helped to reduce emotional burdens and improve well-being in the short term. However, the demanding (clinic) daily routine posed a significant challenge in planning and implementing the yoga sessions. Individualized training concepts are needed to anchor yoga programs for parents of children and adolescents with cancer in the healthcare structure.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 7
Parents of children who are diagnosed with cancer and whose acute medial treatment requires regular hospitalization
- written informed consent by the study participant
- pregnancy
- severe physical and/or mental impairments or other burdens that make participation in yoga impossible
- inadequate german language skills that does not allow the understanding of the declaration of consent, the yoga constructions or the applied questionnaires
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Feasibility of the yoga intervention is primarily assessed by applying a self-developped questionnaire assessing satisfaction and perceived effects od the intervention. This questionnaire has already been successfully applied in recent pediatric oncology studies (parent version) and is supplemented by questions on potential prerequisites and obstacles for yoga participation as well as by questions on special requests for parental exercise intervention in pediatric oncology. Due to the special situation of parents of children who are diagnosed with cancer, assessing feasibility is necessary to allow the transfer of scientific data into daily clinical care. <br><br><br><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The effects of a 4-week yoga intervention as well as the effects of a single yoga session on the perceived physical State are additionally assessed: <br>- stress level and management (Perceived Stress Questionnaire – German version)<br>- Perceived physical state (Adjective list for assessing Perceived Physical State, PEPS)<br>- mental well- being and life quality of life (Short<br> Form Health 36-questionnaire, SF-36)<br>- Interview on the mental condition in the specific context of pediatric oncology<br><br>Additional feasibility parameters are collected:<br>- yoga-specific adverse events<br>- conducted training sessions in term of duration, intensity, and feasibility of the individual yoga exercises<br>- participation rate<br>- reasons for non-participation