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ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2012

Effects of yoga on mental and physical health: a short summary of reviews.

Arndt Büssing, Andreas Michalsen, Sat Bir S Khalsa, Shirley Telles, Karen J Sherman

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Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04414371 (Tools for Wellbeing COVID-19 National Study of Undergraduate Students), which is not on this map. Cited by 167 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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.

NCT04414371 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2020, after this paper: background citation

Tools for Wellbeing COVID-19 National Study of Undergraduate Students

TypeinterventionalSponsorRutgers, The State University of New JerseyRan2020 to 2020Enrolled200ConditionsStress, Anxiety, Depression, ResilienceArmsYoga
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

167 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  7. Yoga for epilepsy.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017
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  8. Yoga as part of a package of care versus standard care for schizophrenia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017
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  9. Yoga versus non-standard care for schizophrenia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017
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  10. Efficacy, Feasibility, and Acceptability of Perinatal Yoga on Women's Mental Health and Well-Being: A Systematic Literature Review.Journal of holistic nursing : official journal of the American Holistic Nurses' Association · 2016
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  12. Yoga versus standard care for schizophrenia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015
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107 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Arndt BüssingDepartment Quality of Life, Spirituality and Coping, Center of Integrative Medicine, Faculty of Health, Witten/Herdecke University, 58313 Herdecke, Germany.
Andreas Michalsen
Sat Bir S Khalsa
Shirley Telles
Karen J Sherman

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This report summarizes the current evidence on the effects of yoga interventions on various components of mental and physical health, by focussing on the evidence described in review articles. Collectively, these reviews suggest a number of areas where yoga may well be beneficial, but more research is required for virtually all of them to firmly establish such benefits. The heterogeneity among interventions and conditions studied has hampered the use of meta-analysis as an appropriate tool for summarizing the current literature. Nevertheless, there are some meta-analyses which indicate beneficial effects of yoga interventions, and there are several randomized clinical trials (RCT's) of relatively high quality indicating beneficial effects of yoga for pain-associated disability and mental health. Yoga may well be effective as a supportive adjunct to mitigate some medical conditions, but not yet a proven stand-alone, curative treatment. Larger-scale and more rigorous research with higher methodological quality and adequate control interventions is highly encouraged because yoga may have potential to be implemented as a beneficial supportive/adjunct treatment that is relatively cost-effective, may be practiced at least in part as a self-care behavioral treatment, provides a life-long behavioural skill, enhances self-efficacy and self-confidence and is often associated with additional positive side effects.

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PMCPMC3447533

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