Preliminary study of a Yoga Program to catalyze health behavior change

瑜伽计划促进健康行为改变的初步研究

• 批准号: 8444078
• 负责人: SARA W LAZAR
• 金额: $ 38.81万
• 依托单位: MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8444078
• 关键词: Adherence; Adopted; American; Awareness; Behavior; Body mass index; Choice Behavior; Clinical; Compassion; Conscious; Data; Development; Dose; Eating Behavior; Educational process of instructing; Emotional; Exercise; Experimental Designs; Goals; Habits; Health; Health Professional; Health behavior; Health behavior change; Home environment; Human; Individual; Instruction; Intervention; Life; Life Style; Manuals; Materials Testing; Mediating; Meditation; Patients; Pattern; Personal Satisfaction; Randomized Clinical Trials; Self Efficacy; Staging; Stress; Techniques; Time; Validation; Work; Yoga; base; behavior change; body-mind; design; diet and exercise; efficacy testing; emotion regulation; follow-up; insight; instructor; interest; mindfulness; novel; programs; public health relevance; skills; success; teacher; trial comparing

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Mind-body practices such as yoga and meditation have been shown to be highly effective for reducing stress and enhancing wellness. Some evidence also suggests that these practices may promote health behaviors such as changes in diet and exercise. A team of yoga teachers from the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health have developed a standardized 16-week hatha yoga program which focuses on promoting skills for wellness. Preliminary data suggest that the program reduces stress and increases mindfulness and self-compassion. Our goal is to obtain preliminary estimates of effect sizes for health behaviors and to determine the optimal 'dose' of the program and home yoga to prescribe. We will also obtain additional information about mechanistic variables of interest and assess the feasibility of various aspects of our experimental design. The results of the current study will establish the feasibility of using the yoga program to change health behaviors and will also provide valuable preliminary information about potential mechanisms through which the yoga program may be working. This information will then allow us to design a large RCT to formally test the efficacy of this program.

描述（由申请人提供）：身心练习，如瑜伽和冥想已被证明是非常有效的减少压力和增强健康。一些证据还表明，这些做法可能会促进健康行为，如饮食和运动的变化。Kripalu瑜伽与健康中心的一组瑜伽教师开发了一个标准化的16周哈他瑜伽课程，重点是促进健康技能。初步数据表明，该计划减少了压力，增加了正念和自我同情。我们的目标是获得对健康行为影响大小的初步估计，并确定该计划和家庭瑜伽的最佳“剂量”。我们还将获得有关感兴趣的机械变量的其他信息，并评估我们实验设计各个方面的可行性。目前的研究结果将确定使用瑜伽计划改变健康行为的可行性，并将提供有关瑜伽计划可能发挥作用的潜在机制的有价值的初步信息。这些信息将使我们能够设计一个大型RCT，以正式测试该计划的有效性。