Efficacy of Taiji Training as a Program for Stress Prevention - a Randomized, Waiting List Controlled Longitudinal Study With Healthy Subjects
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 70
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Area under the curve (AUC) with respect to increase of salivary cortisol titer
研究概览
简要总结
Background: Excessive exposure to psychosocial stress can be a potent trigger for somatic diseases and psychological disorders, a cause for missing work, and eventually lead to high economic loss. Therefore, for health and economic reasons the assessment of effectiveness of stress preventive interventions is of high relevance. According to several clinical studies, Taiji, a Chinese form of mindful and gentle movements, can significantly reduce symptoms of somatic diseases and psychological disorders. Some recently conducted Taiji-studies with healthy subjects indicate a stress protective effect. However, the stress protective impact of Taiji regarding psychosocial stress has not yet been examined.
Objective: To investigate the efficacy of a 12 week Taiji training as a stress prevention program by measuring psychosocial stress reactivity in a laboratory setting, as well as the subjective perception of stress and coping-resources in daily life of 70 healthy volunteers.
Hypothesis: Healthy subjects attending a 12 week Taiji course (frequency: twice a week for 1h) will show significantly reduced psychobiological reactivity, decreased stress perception and increased coping-resources on a standardized psychosocial stress test compared with healthy subject of the waiting list.
详细描述
Background:
Excessive exposure to psychosocial stress can be a potent trigger for somatic diseases and psychological disorders, a cause for missing work, and eventually lead to high economic loss. Therefore, for health and economic reasons the assessment of effectiveness of stress preventive interventions is of high relevance. According to several clinical studies, Taiji, a Chinese form of mindful and gentle movements, can significantly reduce symptoms of somatic diseases and psychological disorders. Some recent Taiji-studies with healthy subjects indicate a stress protective effect. However, since these findings mainly focus on effects during or immediately after a Taiji training session, their study designs and outcome measures are not comparable with existing stress prevention efficacy studies and their sample sizes are generally too small, the present available results remain inconclusive. Also, the impact of a Taiji training on psychosocial stress has not been assessed so far.
Objective:
The objective of this study is to assess the efficacy of a 12 week Taiji training as a stress prevention program by measuring psychosocial stress reactivity in a laboratory setting, subjective perception of stress and coping-resources of 70 healthy subjects in daily life.
Methods:
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 50 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •ready to participate in the Taiji-intervention group as well as in the Waiting list control group
- •mentally healthy
- •physically healthy
- •fluent in German (written and spoken)
- •Exclusion Criteria
- •previous practical experience with Taiji-exercises
- •previous practical experience with the Trier Social Stress Test
- •being absent for more than one week between Sept. 6th and Nov. 25th 2010
- •daily alcohol consumption more than two alcoholic drinks
- •daily tobacco consumption more than five cigarettes per day
- •any kind of drug consumption
- •pregnancy
- •intake of hormonal compounds i.e. birth control pill and hormon replacement therapy
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Area under the curve (AUC) with respect to increase of salivary cortisol titer
时间窗: durring the Trier Social Stress Test
saliva samples will be taken 8 times during the Trier Social Stresstest. Salivary cortisol reactivity in response to this psychosocial stress test will be calculated by aggregating cortisol data of all 8 saliva samples in an AUC value with respect to increase.
次要结局
- salivary alpha amylase reactivity to psychosocial stress(8 times during the Trier Social Stress Test (which lasts 2h))
- heart rate(continuously during the Trier Social Stress Test (which lasts 2h))
- heart rate variability(continuously during the Trier Social Stress Test (which lasts 2h))
- perceived stress(before, after the Taiji training and 2 months follow up)
- self-efficacy-expectancy(before, after the Taiji training and 2 months follow up)
- wellbeing(before, after the Taiji training and 2 months follow up)
- Mindfulness(before, after the Taiji training and 2 months follow up)
- Self Compassion(before, after the Taiji training and 2 months follow up)