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Trial reportThe journal of behavioral health services & research2012

Evaluation of the mental health benefits of yoga in a secondary school: a preliminary randomized controlled trial.

Sat Bir S Khalsa, Lynn Hickey-Schultz, Deborah Cohen, Naomi Steiner, Stephen Cope

2 registry-linked trialsAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in The journal of behavioral health services & research, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 79 papers, 14 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05719246 narecruitingnot on this mapstarted 2020, after this paper: background citation

Standardized Yoga & Meditation Program for Stress Reduction for Adolescents With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

TypeinterventionalSponsorThe Cooper Health SystemRan2020 to 2026Enrolled10ConditionsIrritable Bowel Syndrome, Anxiety, Quality of LifeArmsYoga
NCT07644182 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

The Effect of a Yoga Therapy Program Grounded in the Neuman Systems Model on Test Anxiety, Quality of Life, and Mindfulness Among Secondary School Students: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorPamukkale UniversityRan2026 to 2026Enrolled162ConditionsTest Anxiety in AdolescentsArmsSchool-Based Yoga Therapy Program
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Sat Bir S KhalsaSleep Disorders Research Program, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. khalsa@hms.harvard.edu
Lynn Hickey-Schultz
Deborah Cohen
Naomi Steiner
Stephen Cope

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The goal of this study was to evaluate potential mental health benefits of yoga for adolescents in secondary school. Students were randomly assigned to either regular physical education classes or to 11 weeks of yoga sessions based upon the Yoga Ed program over a single semester. Students completed baseline and end-program self-report measures of mood, anxiety, perceived stress, resilience, and other mental health variables. Independent evaluation of individual outcome measures revealed that yoga participants showed statistically significant differences over time relative to controls on measures of anger control and fatigue/inertia. Most outcome measures exhibited a pattern of worsening in the control group over time, whereas changes in the yoga group over time were either minimal or showed slight improvements. These preliminary results suggest that implementation of yoga is acceptable and feasible in a secondary school setting and has the potential of playing a protective or preventive role in maintaining mental health.

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Mental HealthAdolescentAngerFatigueFemaleHumansMalePsychiatric Status Rating ScalesPsychological TestsResilience, PsychologicalSchool Health ServicesYogaYoung Adult

Identifiers

PMID21647811

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