Wellness through a comprehensive yogic breathing program - a controlled pilot trial.
Wellness through a comprehensive yogic breathing program - a controlled pilot trial.
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10.1186/1472-6882-7-43
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2007-12-19
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Saatcioglu, Fahri
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作者：
Kjellgren, Anette;Bood, Sven A;Saatcioglu, Fahri
背景：社会心理障碍发生率的增加导致各种与压力相关的慢性疼痛和其他疾病的风险和脆弱性增加。放松练习旨在减轻压力，从而有助于防止这些不良结果。广泛使用的放松练习之一是瑜伽和瑜伽呼吸练习。这些练习的一种具体形式是 Sudarshan Kriya 和相关练习 (SK&P)，它们被认为对身心系统有有利的影响。这项试点研究的目标是设计一个方案，调查 SK&P 是否可以提高健康志愿者的健康感。 方法：参与者在瑞典的一个小型大学城招募，并接受为期 6 天的 SK&P 强化计划的指导，每天练习该计划，持续六周。对照组被要求在同一时期每天在扶手椅上放松。受试者总共包括 103 名成年人，其中 55 名属于干预组 (SK&P)，48 名属于对照组。干预前后使用了各种仪器。医院焦虑抑郁量表测量焦虑和抑郁的程度，生活取向测试测量性格乐观程度，压力和能量测试测量个人的能量和压力体验。偏离正常状态的经历测量了意识状态改变的经历。结果：不存在安全问题。依从性很高（SK&P 组只有 1 例退出，对照组有 5 例）。结果测量似乎适合评估各组之间的差异。主观报告通常与仪器的结果相关。数据表明，SK&P 组的参与者（而非对照组）降低了焦虑、抑郁和压力程度，并且提高了乐观程度（方差分析；p < 0.001）。瑜伽组的参与者将练习视为一种积极的事件，带来了有益的影响。结论：这些数据表明，这里开发的实验方案是安全的，依从性良好，全面试验是可行的。获得的数据表明，成年参与者可以通过学习和应用基于瑜伽和瑜伽呼吸练习的计划来改善健康状况；这可以在大规模试验中进行最终评估。试验注册：澳大利亚临床试验注册中心 ACTRN012607000175471。
BACKGROUND: Increasing rates of psychosocial disturbances give rise to increased risks and vulnerability for a wide variety of stress-related chronic pain and other illnesses. Relaxation exercises aim at reducing stress and thereby help prevent these unwanted outcomes. One of the widely used relaxation practices is yoga and yogic breathing exercises. One specific form of these exercises is Sudarshan Kriya and related practices (SK&P) which are understood to have favourable effects on the mind-body system. The goal of this pilot study was to design a protocol that can investigate whether SK&P can lead to increased feeling of wellness in healthy volunteers.METHODS: Participants were recruited in a small university city in Sweden and were instructed in a 6-day intensive program of SK&P which they practiced daily for six weeks. The control group was instructed to relax in an armchair each day during the same period. Subjects included a total of 103 adults, 55 in the intervention (SK&P) group and 48 in the control group. Various instruments were administered before and after the intervention. Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale measured the degree of anxiety and depression, Life Orientation Test measured dispositional optimism, Stress and Energy Test measured individual's energy and stress experiences. Experienced Deviation from Normal State measured the experience of altered state of consciousness.RESULTS: There were no safety issues. Compliance was high (only 1 dropout in the SK&P group, and 5 in the control group). Outcome measures appeared to be appropriate for assessing the differences between the groups. Subjective reports generally correlated with the findings from the instruments. The data suggest that participants in the SK&P group, but not the control group, lowered their degree of anxiety, depression and stress, and also increased their degree of optimism (ANOVA; p < 0.001). The participants in the yoga group experienced the practices as a positive event that induced beneficial effects.CONCLUSION: These data indicate that the experimental protocol that is developed here is safe, compliance level is good, and a full scale trial is feasible. The data obtained suggest that adult participants may improve their wellness by learning and applying a program based on yoga and yogic breathing exercises; this can be conclusively assessed in a large-scale trial.TRIAL REGISTRATION: Australian Clinical Trial Registry ACTRN012607000175471.