ArticleBMC psychiatry2022
Tailored individual Yoga practice improves sleep quality, fatigue, anxiety, and depression in chronic insomnia disorder.
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Effects of Regular Practice of Yoga on Subjective and Objective Sleep Quality in Primary Insomnia
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
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- The effect of chronic yoga interventions on sleep quality in people with sleep disorders: a scoping review.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Effect of aromatherapy massage with lavender essential oil on sleep quality, pain, and mental and psychiatric disorders among breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: a randomized controlled trial.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Trial
- Sleep Quality and Falls Risk in the ELSA Study: A Cross-Sectional and Prospective Cohort Study.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Exercise and sleep health in college students: Efficacy, mechanisms, and implications for practice.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Review
- Integrative sleep management: from molecular pathways to conventional and herbal treatments.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025Review
- Demographics, facilitators, and barriers among predominantly heated yoga users: a survey of the largest U.S. yoga studio brand.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Mind-Body Interventions for Comorbid Sleep and Gastrointestinal Concerns.Current sleep medicine reports · 2025Review
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- A pilot study to establish feasibility and acceptability of a yoga and self-management education intervention to support caregivers and care receivers with persistent pain.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2024Article
- Yoga Professionals' Opinions about Yoga in Health Care.International journal of yogaArticle
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Abstract
backgroundChronic insomnia disorder (CI) is a prevalent sleep disorder that can lead to disturbed daytime functioning and is closely associated with anxiety and depression. First-choice treatment is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT-I). Other mind-body interventions, such as Tai-chi and Yoga, have demonstrated subjective improvements in sleep quality. The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy of Yoga for improvement of subjective and objective sleep quality as well as measures of anxiety, depression, sleepiness, and fatigue in patients with CI.
methodsAdults with CI were prospectively included in this single group pre-post study. Baseline assessments included home polysomnography (PSG), 7-day actigraphy, and questionnaires (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index questionnaire (PSQI), Hospital Anxiety Depression scale (HADS), Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), Pichot fatigue scale (PS)). Patients practiced Viniyoga, an individualised Yoga practice with daily self-administered exercises, for 14 weeks. Assessments were repeated at the end of Yoga practice.
resultsTwenty-one patients completed the study. Objective sleep measurements revealed no change in PSG parameters after Yoga practice, but a decrease in arousals on actigraphy (p < 0.001). Subjective symptoms improved for all questionnaires (PSQI, p < 0.001; HAD-A, p = 0.020, HAD-D, p = 0.001, ESS, p = 0.041, PS, p = 0.010). In univariate correlations, decrease in PSQI was associated with increase in sleep stage N3 (p < 0.001) on PSG.
conclusionsWe have demonstrated a positive impact of individualized Yoga practice on subjective parameters related to sleep and daytime symptoms in CI, resulting in fewer arousals on actigraphy. Yoga could be proposed as a potentially useful alternative to CBT-I in CI, as it is easy to practice autonomously over the long-term. However, given the design of the present study, future prospective controlled studies should first confirm our results.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03314441 , date of registration: 19/10/2017.
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