Efficacy of Child Yoga Programme on Quality of Life of Pediatric Oncology Patients.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 60
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL 4.0) of 8-12 and 13-18 age were used to evaluate the impact of the child yoga program on quality of life of pediatric oncology patients.
研究概览
简要总结
Pediatric oncology patients experience physical and psycho-social symptoms that negatively affect their quality of life during treatment. "Yoga" practices, known as a unique physical activity that combines mind-body awareness and breathing exercises to improve the quality of life of pediatric oncology patients, have recently become popular.
The study was conducted experimentally in the form of pre-test and post-test with 30 controls, 30 experimental group children who were treated in the Pediatric Oncology / Hematology service of a university hospital and their parents, in order to investigate the effect of children's yoga program on the quality of life of pediatric oncology patients. Ethics committee, institutional and parental consent was obtained. Data were collected using a questionnaire form and the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory "PedsQL (4.0)". Participants filled out the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory "PedsQL (4.0)" Child and Parent Form before the 3-week (6 sessions) yoga program and salivary cortisol samples were taken from the children. These procedures were repeated after the yoga program. Anova test and "Paired sample t" test were used among statistical analysis methods. Statistical significance was accepted as p <0.05.
详细描述
A questionnaire form was used to learn the socio-demographic characteristics of the children participating in the study and their families. The survey questions are: (age of parents, employment status, child's age, gender, maternal/paternal age, income status, diagnosis of the child, hospitalization the reason (chemotherapy, new diagnosis, relapsed? hospitalized for side effects of the disease? how much whether he was diagnosed a long time ago, how long he has been in the hospital, whether he went to school, whether he had previous yoga experience, whether he had knowledge about children's yoga before.
In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the child yoga program, the study was conducted with pre-test and post-test. Before the first yoga session, the experimental and control group caregiver parents and children was completed the quality of life inventory.
The children's yoga program lasted for 3 weeks, 2 sessions per week. At the end of the 6th session, parents and the child's quality of life inventory was repeated.
In order to evaluate the effect of yoga on stress of children, cortisol from saliva samples were taken both groups before the program starts.The measurement was performed for both groups after a 3-week (6 sessions) yoga program.
The hypotheses in the study can be summarized as follows:
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 8 Years 至 18 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Of the participating children, those who did not have any other accompanying disease and did not have developmental disorders were included in the study.
排除标准
- •Children who were not approved by the Pediatric Oncology unit responsible doctor for inclusion in the yoga program constituted the limitation of the study.
结局指标
主要结局
Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL 4.0) of 8-12 and 13-18 age were used to evaluate the impact of the child yoga program on quality of life of pediatric oncology patients.
时间窗: 3 weeks
A questionnaire form was used to learn the socio-demographic characteristics of the children and their families. Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL 4.0) of 8-12 and 13-18 age child and parent form were used to evaluate the impact of the child yoga program on quality of life of pediatric oncology patients.It is a versatile inventory of 23 items covering school functions (5 Items), social functions (5 Items), emotional functions (5 Items), physical functions (8 Items). Saliva samples were taken from the experimental and control groups to measure the stress levels of the children with the cortisol kit.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
N.Ecem Oksal Gunes, Phd
Principal investigator
Cukurova University