Effectiveness of Yoga@Work Program on Neck and Shoulder Pain in Information Technology (IT) Employees
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 132
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Visual analogue scale for pain
研究概览
简要总结
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 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
- 否
入选标准
- •IT companies employee
- •Full time employment
- •Neck and Shoulder Pain
- •pain of at least 3 months duration
- •able to comply with intervention schedule
排除标准
- •Pregnancy
- •Refuse to give informed consent
- •spinal fracture
- •recent cervical spine or shoulder surgery
- •recent (3 months) chemotherapy/radiotherapy/ intervention
研究组 & 干预措施
Yoga Group
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).
干预措施: Yoga@work (Other)
Wait-list Group
Participants in Wait-List control were not given any intervention. 8-weeks, group followed usual break time.
结局指标
主要结局
Visual analogue scale for pain
时间窗: change from baseline to 8 weeks
100-mm visual analog scale (VAS), horizontal line ranging from 0mm (no pain) to 100mm (worst imaginable pain).
次要结局
- Shoulder pain disability index(Change from baseline to 8-weeks)
- Neck disability index (NDI)(Change from baseline to 8-weeks)