Effect of Yoga@Work Program

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Shoulder Pain; Musculoskeletal Pain; Neck Pain
• Interventions: Other: Yoga@work

• Registration Number: NCT03840304
• Lead Sponsor: NMP Medical Research Institute

Brief Summary

Employees working in IT industry are prone to develop musculoskeletal pain,specifically back, neck and shoulder pain. This study evaluates the effectiveness of work-site yoga intervention, Yoga@work on neck and shoulder pain in IT employees.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-07-12
• Primary Completion: 2018-12-12
• Study Completion: 2019-01-28
• Status Verified: 2019-02
• Study First Submitted: 2019-02-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-02-11
• Study First Posted: 2019-02-15
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-02-20
• Last Update Posted: 2019-02-21

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 132

Inclusion Criteria

• IT companies employee
• Full time employment
• Neck and Shoulder Pain
• pain of at least 3 months duration
• able to comply with intervention schedule

Exclusion Criteria

• Pregnancy
• Refuse to give informed consent
• spinal fracture
• recent cervical spine or shoulder surgery
• recent (3 months) chemotherapy/radiotherapy/ intervention

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Yoga Group	Yoga@work	Participants in the intervention group engaged in a 8-week yoga program delivered at their place of work (IT companies). Sessions were group-based, prescribed three sessions per week during break time (30-mins).

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Visual analogue scale for pain	change from baseline to 8 weeks	100-mm visual analog scale (VAS), horizontal line ranging from 0mm (no pain) to 100mm (worst imaginable pain).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Neck disability index (NDI)	Change from baseline to 8-weeks	The NDI is a standard instrument for measuring self-rated disability due to neck pain.10-item, 50-point index; each of the 10 items is scored from 0 - 5. Higher points represent worse pain
Shoulder pain disability index	Change from baseline to 8-weeks	The SPADI is a 13-item patient completed instrument. Its categories include pain (5 items) and disability (8 items), overall total scores range from 0 to 130. Higher score represent worse disability

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

NMP Medical Reserach Institute; 🇮🇳 Jaipur, Rajasthan, India