A Yoga and Compassion Meditation Program Improve Quality of Life and Self-compassion in Family Caregivers of Alzheimer's Disease Patients: a Randomized Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 46
- 主要终点
- change in cortisol
研究概览
简要总结
This study evaluates the effects of the practice of yoga in combination with compassion meditation on the quality of life, attention, vitality and self-compassion of family caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
详细描述
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive brain disorder that involves the loss of reasoning, memory, language and the ability to live independently. Thus, patients who suffer from this disease often require care from another person and must adapt to ensure their health, functional capacity and safety. Caregivers have a poor quality of life due to the physical and psychological burden of caregiving. Such physical, psychological, social and financial burden can increase the risk of death. Within this scenario, techniques such as yoga and meditation have emerged as low-cost interventions that offer little or no risk to the practitioners. Yoga seeks to develop health and attention through physical postures, breathing exercises and formal meditative practices.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •be a family caregiver of Alzheimer disease patient
- •age over 18 years
- •completed at least the primary education level
- •at least at the phase of stress resistance according to Lipp's Inventory of Stress Symptoms for adults
排除标准
- •patient with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- •alcohol use (more than 5 drinks per week) or use of drugs-of-abuse;
- •suffer from Cushing's syndrome
- •under treatment with topical, nasal or any form of steroids within the last 30 days
- •practice yoga, meditation or similar techniques
研究组 & 干预措施
Yoga and compassion meditation program
The duration of this group was 8 weeks. The program included sessions 3 times per week, with each session lasting 1 hour and 15 minutes. The volunteers performed yoga classes composed of "asana" (poses), "pranayama" (breathing exercise) and meditation.
干预措施: yoga and compassion meditation program (Behavioral)
control
this group was a non treatment group.
结局指标
主要结局
change in cortisol
时间窗: baseline, 8 weeks
Saliva samples were collected for analysis of cortisol
次要结局
- change in self-compassion(baseline, 8 weeks)
- change in attention(baseline, 8 weeks)
- change in stress(baseline, 8 weeks)
- change in depression(baseline, 8 weeks)
- change in anxiety(baseline, 8 weeks)
- change in quality of life(baseline, 8 weeks)
- change in vitality(baseline, 8 weeks)
研究者
JGalduroz
MD
Federal University of São Paulo