ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2013
A randomized controlled trial on the effects of yoga on stress reactivity in 6th grade students.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- The effects of school-based interventions on physiological stress in adolescents: A meta-analysis.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2022Pooled it
- Mind-Body Physical Activity Interventions and Stress-Related Physiological Markers in Educational Settings: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Characteristics of randomized controlled trials of yoga: a bibliometric analysis.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2014Pooled it
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- Evaluation of Yoga for Preventing Adolescent Substance Use Risk Factors in a Middle School Setting: A Preliminary Group-Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2017Trial
- A Semester of Hatha Yoga Has Comparable Effects to Physical Education for Children in Terms of Physical Activity and Psychosocial Indicators.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effects of a mental health promotion intervention on mental health of Iranian female adolescents: a school-based study.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2020Article
- Separating the "Limbs" of Yoga: Limited Effects on Stress and Mood.Journal of religion and health · 2019Article
- Effect of mindfulness and yoga on quality of life for elementary school students and teachers: results of a randomized controlled school-based study.Psychology research and behavior management · 2018Article
- A Qualitative Examination of Yoga for Middle School Adolescents.Advances in school mental health promotion · 2017Article
- Assessing Fidelity of Implementation (FOI) for School-Based Mindfulness and Yoga Interventions: A Systematic Review.Mindfulness · 2016Article
- Influence of Yoga-Based Personality Development Program on Psychomotor Performance and Self-efficacy in School Children.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2016Article
- Perceived Benefits of Yoga among Urban School Students: A Qualitative Analysis.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2016Article
- Yoga in public school improves adolescent mood and affect.Contemporary school psychology · 2015Article
- Are There Benefits from Teaching Yoga at Schools? A Systematic Review of Randomized Control Trials of Yoga-Based Interventions.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2015Review
- A Randomised Controlled Trial Comparing the Impact of Yoga and Physical Education on the Emotional and Behavioural Functioning of Middle School Children.Focus on alternative and complementary therapies : FACT · 2014Article
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Abstract
There is an increasing interest in developing school programs that improve the ability of children to cope with psychosocial stress. Yoga may be an appropriate intervention as it has demonstrated improvements in the ability of children to manage psychosocial stress. Yoga is thought to improve the control of reactivity to stress via the regulation of the autonomic nervous system. The current study examined the effects of yoga compared to a physical education class on physiological response (blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR)) to behavioral stressor tasks (mental arithmetic and mirror tracing tasks). Data analysis of BP and HR was performed using a 2 × 2 × 4 repeated measures ANOVA (time × group × stressor time points). 30 (17 male) 6th graders participated in the study. Yoga did not provide significant differences in stress reactivity compared to a physical education class (group × time: systolic (F(1,28) = .538, P = .470); diastolic (F(1,28) = .1.061, P = .312); HR (F(1,28) = .401, P = .532)). The lack of significant differences may be due to the yoga intervention failing to focus on stress management and/or the stressor tasks not adequately capturing attenuation of stressor response.
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