Trial reportBMC complementary and alternative medicine2018
Effect of traditional yoga, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy, on health related quality of life: a randomized controlled trial on patients on sick leave because of burnout.
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Yoga, Mindfulness and Cognitive Psychotherapy as Treatment for Stress and Burnout
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Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 78 citations in OpenAlex.
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- The development and clinical application of a novel schizophrenia screening system using yoga-induced autonomic nervous system responses.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- The Effect of Mindfulness Yoga in Children With School Refusal: A Study Protocol for an Exploratory, Cluster-Randomized, Open, Standard Care-Controlled, Multicenter Clinical Trial.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Teachers' Burnout Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Relationships With Socio-Contextual Stress-A Latent Profile Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy with yoga in reducing job stress among university lecturers.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- 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
- Yoga as a Therapy for Irritable Bowel Syndrome.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2020Review
- Evaluating a group-based Yoga of Stress Resilience programme: a pragmatic before-after interventional study protocol.BMJ open · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundTo explore if health related quality of life(HRQoL) increased after traditional yoga(TY), mindfulness based cognitive therapy(MBCT), or cognitive behavioral therapy(CBT), in patients on sick leave because of burnout.
methodsRandomized controlled trial, blinded, in ninety-four primary health care patients, block randomized to TY, MBCT or CBT (active control) between September 2007 and November 2009. Patients were living in the Stockholm metropolitan area, Sweden, were aged 18-65 years and were on 50%-100% sick leave. A group treatment for 20 weeks, three hours per week, with homework four hours per week. HRQoL was measured by the SWED-QUAL questionnaire, comprising 67 items grouped into 13 subscales, each with a separate index, and scores from 0 (worse) to 100 (best). SWED-QUAL covers aspects of physical and emotional well-being, cognitive function, sleep, general health and social and sexual functioning. Statistics: Wilcoxon's rank sum and Wilcoxon's sign rank tests, Bonett-Price for medians and confidence intervals, and Cohen's D.
resultsTwenty-six patients in the TY (21 women), and 27 patients in both the MBCT (24 women) and in the CBT (25 women), were analyzed. Ten subscales in TY and seven subscales in MBCT and CBT showed improvements, p < 0.05, in several of the main domains affected in burnout, e.g. emotional well-being, physical well-being, cognitive function and sleep. The median improvement ranged from 0 to 27 points in TY, from 4 to 25 points in CBT and from 0 to 25 points in MBCT. The effect size was mainly medium or large. Comparison of treatments showed no statistical differences, but better effect (small) of both TY and MBCT compared to CBT. When comparing the effect of TY and MBCT, both showed a better effect (small) in two subscales each.
conclusionsA 20 week group treatment with TY, CBT or MBCT had equal effects on HRQoL, and particularly on main domains affected in burnout. This indicates that TY, MBCT and CBT can be used as both treatment and prevention, to improve HRQoL in patients on sick leave because of burnout, reducing the risk of future morbidity.
trial registrationJuly 22, 2012, retrospectively registered. ClinicalTrails.gov NCT01168661 .
fundingStockholm County Council, grant 2003-5.
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