Caring for Healthcare Professionals on COVID-19 duty – A Pilot study of an Online Yoga Program in Healthcare Professionals
试验速览
- 阶段
- 2 期
- 状态
- 招募中
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 100
- 试验地点
- 3
- 主要终点
- Feasibility and Acceptance of Yoga program and stress, anxiety and depression
研究概览
简要总结
In the current overwhelming situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) are posed with multiple emergent situations that questions their capability in terms of severity and numbers of severely ill cases in the hospital wards topped by uncertain nature of the virus that has killed millions of persons worldwide. In addition to the above scenario, deaths from COVID-19 infection amongst the HCPs globally, incites a fear of themselves getting infected or transmitting it to their near and dear ones while they impart critical care to COVID-19 patients.
Excessive stress has been reported among the HCPs globally. Such persistent/repeated stressful situations could lead to effects on the individual’s health such as depression, and development of aspects of metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease or post-traumatic stress disorder. Practice of yoga, has been shown to reduce stress in various conditions including HCPs exhaustion and burnout.
The purpose of this study is to pilot-test in a randomized controlled design (wait-list controls), the feasibility and acceptance of a tailored flexible online yoga program and its effects on stress, anxiety and depression in HCPs involved in COVID-19 patients’ care. Such an online yoga program could potentially be an effective self-care stress-buster acceptable to HCPs. In this study, the yoga program and the assessments (baseline, one-month and three-month post intervention assessments) will be conducted online without face-to-face interaction, thus removing any risk to the HCPs and the research staff.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Coin toss, Lottery, toss of dice, shuffling cards etc
- 盲法
- Not Applicable
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 20.00 Year(s) 至 50.00 Year(s)（—）
- 性别
- All
入选标准
- •Physician, Interns and Nurses who were on COVID-19 duty in the last six months
- •Agreeing to follow the study’s intervention and complete assessments
- •Willing to be randomly assigned to either intervention group or wait-list control group.
排除标准
- •Self-reported major psychiatric condition or current history of taking drugs for the same
- •Serious illness of neck, back, pelvis, or lower limbs that will interfere with following the yoga protocol
- •Pregnant or trying to get pregnant in case of female HCPs
- •Participants with severe and uncontrolled chronic disease (Non-communicable disease) such heart disease, hypertension, pulmonary disease, arthritis, diabetes, etc.
结局指标
主要结局
Feasibility and Acceptance of Yoga program and stress, anxiety and depression
时间窗: 1) Baseline | 2) end of Intervention / one-month post | 3) three-month post intervention
次要结局
- Sleep duration, Burnout, Mindfulness(1) Baseline)