Effect of Yoganidra on COVID health care workers: Pilot Study

COIVD19, a pandemic of 2020 is requiring dedicated professional health care workers due to highlycontagious nature of this disease. Due to this, COVID warriors are experiencing emotional andpsychological problems like stress, anxiety, depression and insomnia including post traumatic stressdisorders. Among many therapies (psychotherapy and Mind Body Therapy) available includingYoganidra have been studied and documented to decrease stress and anxiety, and improve generalwell being among PTSD and insomnia patients. However, search for effect of Yoganidra on covid19warriors is not available in the literature (PUBMED). Hence, a pilot study is planned to assess theimpact of Yoganidra. This study is an open label randomized controlled trials. It consists of 2 groupseach 30 participants: a) Yoganidra group and b) Sleep relaxation group. Health care workers havingcovid duty will be contacted telephonically 1 day prior to start of duty and study will be explained indetail. Consented participants will be block randomized and allotted to particular therapy. They willbe given respective therapy demonstration and video link of each therapy will be sent to them.Baseline characteristics, GAD-7 scale, PHQ-9 scale and Insomnia Severity Index score will berecorded. They will be given respective therapy during covid duty and during quarantine period ifquarantine is applicable as per hospital policy. GAD-7 scale, PHQ-9 scale and Insomnia SeverityIndex scores will be assessed at the end of covid duty and quarantine period and compared to thebaseline between intra-group and inter-groups. Outcomes will be assessed for level of Depression,Anxiety and Insomnia among covid health care workers over the period in both the groups.