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Home-Based Yoga Program for the Patients Suffering from Malignant Lymphoma during Chemotherapy: A Feasibility Study.
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- Yoga intervention on the fatigue-pain-sleep disturbance symptom cluster for breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy: a pilot randomized controlled trial.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2026Trial
- What are we learning with Yoga? Mapping the scientific literature on Yoga using a vector-text-mining approach.PloS one · 2025Article
- Integrative Approaches in the Treatment of Patients Affected by Lymphoma.Current oncology reports · 2023Review
- Self-managed physical activity in cancer survivors for the management of cancer-related fatigue: A scoping review.PloS one · 2022Article
- Yoga Improves Balance and Low-Back Pain, but Not Anxiety, in People with Parkinson's Disease.International journal of yoga therapy · 2020Article
- Culturally Tailored Home-based Yoga Intervention for Lymphoma Patients on Chemotherapy.International journal of yogaArticle
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Abstract
backgroundYoga is proven beneficial in improving quality of life among breast cancer survivors receiving chemotherapy, but its effectiveness in lymphoma patients needs to be explored. As chemotherapy-induced neutropenia is very common among lymphoma patients, they are much prone to infections from the environment. Furthermore, trained yoga instructors are not available in every setting, so there is a need to develop home-based yoga program modules for lymphoma patients receiving chemotherapy.
aimThe aim of the study was to explore the feasibility and safety of yogic exercises among lymphoma patients during chemotherapy. SUBJECTS AND
methodsAn interventional, single-arm prepost design study was conducted at a tertiary health-care center. Patients suffering from malignant lymphoma (18-65 years) with Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status from 0 to 2, planned to receive chemotherapy were administered a home-based yoga program over a period of 2 months from the start of chemotherapy. The primary outcome variables were retention rate, acceptance rate, safety, and adherence. Health-related quality of life (HRQOL), fatigue level, overall sleep quality, depression, anxiety level, and pain were also assessed. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Descriptive statistics was used to see the feasibility and adherence. The paired
resultsFourteen patients (median age: 36 years, range13-65 years) of malignant lymphoma were enrolled in the study. Male-to-female ratio was 9:5. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients constituted 64%. The recruitment rate was 93%. Favorable retention (100%), acceptability (97%), adherence (78.6%), and no serious adverse events following yoga practice were reported. Improvement was also found in HRQOL, fatigue, sleep, depression, and anxiety. However, it needs further validation in a randomized study.
conclusionHome-based yoga program is safe and feasible among the patients suffering from malignant lymphoma receiving chemotherapy.
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