ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2013
Medical yoga for patients with stress-related symptoms and diagnoses in primary health care: a randomized controlled trial.
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Medical Yoga for Patients With Stress-related Symptoms and Diagnoses in Primary Health Care - a Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Dose-response relationship of exercise interventions on sleep quality in patients with depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- The effect of chronic yoga interventions on sleep quality in people with sleep disorders: a scoping review.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of yoga on stress in stressed adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- The effect of yoga on sleep quality and insomnia in women with sleep problems: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- Characteristics of randomized controlled trials of yoga: a bibliometric analysis.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2014Pooled it
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- Feasibility of yoga as a complementary therapy for patients with type 2 diabetes: The Healthy Active and in Control (HA1C) study.Complementary therapies in medicine · 2019Trial
- Yoga versus education for Veterans with chronic low back pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Trials · 2016Trial
- Medical yoga: another way of being in the world-a phenomenological study from the perspective of persons suffering from stress-related symptoms.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2014Trial
- Yoga as Potential Therapy for Burnout: Health Technology Assessment Report on Efficacy, Safety, Economic, Social, Ethical, Legal and Organizational Aspects.Current psychiatry reports · 2025Review
- Exercise interventions to reduce anxiety in mid-life and late-life anxiety disorders and subthreshold anxiety disorder: a systematic review.Therapeutic advances in psychopharmacology · 2022Review
- Tele-Yoga in Long Term Illness-Protocol for a Randomised Controlled Trial Including a Process Evaluation and Results from a Pilot Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Impact of Integrated Amrita MeditationThe Indian journal of medical research · 2020Article
- The Effect of Mind-Body Therapies on Insomnia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2019Review
- Yoga as a Complementary Therapy for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: Design and Rationale of the Healthy, Active, and in Control (HA1C) Study.International journal of yoga therapy · 2018Article
- Yoga Training in Junior Primary School-Aged Children Has an Impact on Physical Self-Perceptions and Problem-Related Behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
- Yoga-Based Classes for Veterans With Severe Mental Illness: Development, Dissemination, and Assessment.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2015Article
- Yoga in adult cancer: an exploratory, qualitative analysis of the patient experience.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2015Article
- The Effects of Mind-Body Interventions on Sleep Quality: A Systematic Review.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2015Review
- Implementation of an integrative coping and resiliency program for nurses.Global advances in health and medicine · 2015Article
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Abstract
An increasing number of patients are suffering from stress-related symptoms and diagnoses. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the medical yoga treatment in patients with stress-related symptoms and diagnoses in primary health care. A randomized controlled study was performed at a primary health care centre in Sweden from March to June, 2011. Patients were randomly allocated to a control group receiving standard care or a yoga group treated with medical yoga for 1 hour, once a week, over a 12-week period in addition to the standard care. A total of 37 men and women, mean age of 53 ± 12 years were included. General stress level (measured using Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)), burnout (Shirom-Melamed Burnout Questionnaire (SMBQ)), anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)), insomnia severity (Insomnia Severity Index (ISI)), pain (visual analogue scale (VAS)), and overall health status (Euro Quality of Life VAS (EQ-VAS)) were measured before and after 12 weeks. Patients assigned to the Yoga group showed significantly greater improvements on measures of general stress level (P < 0.000), anxiety (P < 0.019), and overall health status (P < 0.018) compared to controls. Treatment with medical yoga is effective in reducing levels of stress and anxiety in patients with stress-related symptoms in primary health care.
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