Yoga for Family Caregivers of Alzheimers Disease Patient

NCT ID: NCT02563483

Last Updated: 2015-09-30

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 46 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2007-09-30
• Study Completion Date: 2009-11-30

Brief Summary

This study evaluates the effects of the practice of yoga in combination with compassion meditation on the quality of life, attention, vitality and self-compassion of family caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Detailed Description

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive brain disorder that involves the loss of reasoning, memory, language and the ability to live independently. Thus, patients who suffer from this disease often require care from another person and must adapt to ensure their health, functional capacity and safety. Caregivers have a poor quality of life due to the physical and psychological burden of caregiving. Such physical, psychological, social and financial burden can increase the risk of death. Within this scenario, techniques such as yoga and meditation have emerged as low-cost interventions that offer little or no risk to the practitioners. Yoga seeks to develop health and attention through physical postures, breathing exercises and formal meditative practices.

Conditions

Stress; Anxiety; Compassion

Keywords

caregivers; anxiety; depression; yoga; meditation; stress

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Yoga and compassion meditation program

The duration of this group was 8 weeks. The program included sessions 3 times per week, with each session lasting 1 hour and 15 minutes. The volunteers performed yoga classes composed of "asana" (poses), "pranayama" (breathing exercise) and meditation.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

yoga and compassion meditation program

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

25 min of physical exercise, holding each pose (stretching exercise) for an average of 1 min and 30 s; 25 min of breathing exercises and 25 min of meditation.

control

this group was a non treatment group.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

yoga and compassion meditation program

25 min of physical exercise, holding each pose (stretching exercise) for an average of 1 min and 30 s; 25 min of breathing exercises and 25 min of meditation.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• be a family caregiver of Alzheimer disease patient
• age over 18 years
• completed at least the primary education level
• at least at the phase of stress resistance according to Lipp's Inventory of Stress Symptoms for adults

Exclusion Criteria

• patient with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• alcohol use (more than 5 drinks per week) or use of drugs-of-abuse;
• suffer from Cushing's syndrome
• under treatment with topical, nasal or any form of steroids within the last 30 days
• practice yoga, meditation or similar techniques

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Federal University of São Paulo

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

JGalduroz

MD

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

References

Danucalov MA, Kozasa EH, Ribas KT, Galduroz JC, Garcia MC, Verreschi IT, Oliveira KC, Romani de Oliveira L, Leite JR. A yoga and compassion meditation program reduces stress in familial caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2013;2013:513149. doi: 10.1155/2013/513149. Epub 2013 Apr 18.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 23690846 (View on PubMed)

Related Links

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23690846

A yoga and compassion meditation program reduces stress in familial caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients

Other Identifiers

yoga caregivers

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id