Yoga for Family Caregivers of Alzheimers Disease Patient

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Stress; Anxiety; Compassion

• Registration Number: NCT02563483
• Lead Sponsor: Federal University of São Paulo

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2007-09
• Primary Completion: 2008-02
• Study Completion: 2009-11
• Status Verified: 2015-09
• Study First Submitted: 2015-09-28
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-09-29
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-09-29
• Study First Posted: 2015-09-30
• Last Update Posted: 2015-09-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 46

Inclusion Criteria

• 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

Exclusion Criteria

• 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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
change in cortisol	baseline, 8 weeks	Saliva samples were collected for analysis of cortisol

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
change in stress	baseline, 8 weeks	Lipp Stress Inventory
change in depression	baseline, 8 weeks	Beck Depression Inventory
change in anxiety	baseline, 8 weeks	Beck Anxiety Inventory
change in quality of life	baseline, 8 weeks	WHOQOL-bref (World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire with 26 questions)
change in vitality	baseline, 8 weeks	Subjective Vitality Scales
change in attention	baseline, 8 weeks	Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale
change in self-compassion	baseline, 8 weeks	Self-Compassion Scale