How Body Awareness Promotes Mental Health During Yoga and Physical Exercise
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 71
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Change in Interoceptive Acuity
研究概览
简要总结
The integrity of interoceptive networks is linked to resilience against depressive symptoms, whereas degradation of these networks is linked to apathy and deficits in emotion processing. The goal of this study is to compare two major styles of yoga and cardiovascular exercise through a 10-week training program to promote interoceptive awareness. The researchers hypothesize that improvement in affective symptomatology will be correlated with better interoceptive development. Changes in mood related symptoms and interoception will be assessed at baseline, week 12 and week 14, in a cohort of adults aged 18-55.
详细描述
A recent annual survey of U.S. college freshman has found consistently declining levels of emotional health over the past 25 years. Exposure to such stress can have profound longitudinal effects on well being, influencing risk for disease later in life. Physical exercise is linked to benefits across a variety of physical and psychological domains. While the affective and physiological consequences of exercise are well-documented, how they work to improve subjective well-being is unclear. It has been suggested that exercise promotes well-being by increasing interoception. The integrity of interoceptive networks is linked to resilience against depressive symptoms, whereas degradation of these networks is linked to apathy and deficits in emotion processing. The goal of this study is to compare two major styles of yoga and cardiovascular exercise through a 10-week training program to promote interoceptive awareness. The researchers hypothesize that improvement in affective symptomatology will be correlated with better interoceptive development. Changes in mood related symptoms and interoception will be assessed at baseline, week 12 and week 14, in a cohort of adults aged 18-55.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Basic Science
- 盲法
- Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 55 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •18-55 years of age
- •Have negative mood symptoms (depression, anxiety, stress)
- •Is healthy and independent enough in daily life to attend study classes
排除标准
- •Pregnant women or women who are planning to become pregnant during the study period
- •History of structural brain disease, mass lesion, stroke, epilepsy
- •History of addictive disorder or significant substance abuse
- •Neurological disorders or reversible causes of dementia
- •Suicidality or history of psychosis
- •Currently attending regular yoga or aerobic exercise practice, or participated in more than 6 formal meditation, aerobic, or yoga classes in the past 12 months
- •Self-reported cognitive impairment and other disorders which may preclude safe participation in the program including acute major depression, bipolar or severe personality disorder
结局指标
主要结局
Change in Interoceptive Acuity
时间窗: 14 weeks
Interoceptive acuity will be assessed at baseline, week 12 and week 14. Data collection at three time points will be used to assess changes in interoceptive acuity over the timeline.
次要结局
- Peripheral Inflammatory Markers of Stress by collecting Dried Blood Spot (DBS)(14 weeks)
研究者
Sara W Lazar
Principal Investigator
Massachusetts General Hospital