Trial reportCognitive behaviour therapy2015
The Effects of a Hatha Yoga Intervention on Facets of Distress Tolerance.
Trial report in Cognitive behaviour therapy, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Hot Yoga: A Systematic Review of the Physiological, Functional and Psychological Responses and Adaptations.Sports medicine - open · 2025Pooled it
- Embodied Cognition in Meditation, Yoga, and Ethics-An Experimental Single-Case Study on the Differential Effects of Four Mind-Body Treatments.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- A preliminary investigation of yoga as an intervention approach for improving long-term weight loss: A randomized trial.PloS one · 2022Trial
- PATH Trial for Examining Yoga as a Strategy to Improve Remote-Based Weight Loss in Adults: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Therapeutic Goals of One-on-One Viniyoga: A Qualitative Study of Practitioner Perspectives and Case Applications.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Effect of a Novel Somatic Avatar Training on Distress Tolerance Among Unhoused Men Recovering from Substance use Disorders: A Pilot Study.Journal of technology in behavioral science · 2025Article
- Effects of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on Mental Health and Resiliency of Migrant Live-in Caregivers in Canada: Pilot Randomized Wait List Controlled Trial.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- A randomized controlled trial of yoga vs nonaerobic exercise for veterans with PTSD: Understanding efficacy, mechanisms of change, and mode of delivery.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2021Article
- Community-Delivered Heated Hatha Yoga as a Treatment for Depressive Symptoms: An Uncontrolled Pilot Study.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2019Article
- Yoga's potential for promoting healthy eating and physical activity behaviors among young adults: a mixed-methods study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2018Article
- Applications of Yoga in Psychiatry: What We Know.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2018Article
- How Is the Practice of Yoga Related to Weight Status? Population-Based Findings From Project EAT-IV.Journal of physical activity & health · 2017Article
- Exercise for Mood and Anxiety Disorders: The State-of-the Science.Cognitive behaviour therapy · 2015Article
- Reduction of Distress Intolerance With Salutotherapeutic Interventions: Results From a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.Chronic stress (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)Article
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Abstract
Individuals with low distress tolerance (DT) experience negative emotion as particularly threatening and are highly motivated to reduce or avoid such affective experiences. Consequently, these individuals have difficulty regulating emotions and tend to engage in maladaptive strategies, such as overeating, as a means to reduce or avoid distress. Hatha yoga encourages one to implement present-centered awareness and non-reaction in the face of physical and psychological discomfort and, thus, emerges as a potential strategy for increasing DT. To test whether a hatha yoga intervention can enhance DT, a transdiagnostic risk and maintenance factor, this study randomly assigned females high in emotional eating in response to stress (N = 52) either to an 8-week, twice-weekly hatha (Bikram) yoga intervention or to a waitlist control condition. Self-reported DT and emotional eating were measured at baseline, weekly during treatment, and 1-week post-treatment. Consistent with prediction, participants in the yoga condition reported greater increases in DT over the course of the intervention relative to waitlist participants (Cohen's d = .82). Also consistent with prediction, the reduction in emotional eating was greater for the yoga condition than the waitlist condition (Cohen's d = .92). Importantly, reductions distress absorption, a specific sub-facet of DT, accounted for 15% of the variance in emotional eating, a hallmark behavior of eating pathology and risk factor for obesity.
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