Stress
Conditions
Keywords
yoga, mindfulness
Brief summary
This study aimed to examine the effect of yoga on mindfulness and perceived stress levels in nursing students. A randomized controlled study was conducted in a nursing department in western Turkey between September 2019 and January 2020. The required institutional permission and ethics committee approval was received. The study participants were 56 nursing students with (intervention group (n:29), control group (n:27). The intervention group received the yoga program for 15 weeks delivered once a week. The control group did not practice yoga.
Detailed description
This study aimed to examine the effect of yoga on mindfulness and perceived stress levels in nursing students in a parallel-group pretest-posttest randomized controlled study design. The required institutional permission and ethics committee approval was received. The study was conducted in a nursing department in western Turkey between September 2019 and January 2020. The study consisted of 56 nursing students with (intervention group (n:29), control group (n:27). The intervention group received the yoga program for 15 weeks delivered once a week face to face. The control group did not practice yoga. The data were collected using Personnel data form, Mindful Attention Awareness Scale, Perceived Stress Scale. The data were collected from the students using the online survey. For data analysis, descriptive statistics, paired sample t test, independent t, Pearson chi-square test were used. At the end of the study, the same yoga session was held with the students in the control group.
Interventions
OTHERyoga practice
The researcher has a yoga certificate before the study. The intervention group participated in 15 weeks of yoga/awareness activities led by the researcher. The yoga curriculum for the use of yoga in the classroom had been previously studied with nursing students and permission was obtained for its use in this study \[11\]. The course content consists of 1.5 hours/per week (theoretical: 30 minutes; practical: 60 minutes) Each yoga session includes 5 minutes of breathing (pranayama) and warming up, 40 minutes of postures (asanas), 5 minutes of breathing (pranayama), 5 minutes of corpse pose (shavasana).In addition, to develop mindfulness, after the class, students were offered daily practices that enable a mindfulness-based approach to life events. The students participated in activities such as yoga practice, breathing and relaxation exercises, meditation practices with instructor notes and resources.
Sponsors
Izmir Democracy University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Masking description
A random allocation sequence was generated by an off-site statistician who was not involved in the participants' interventions. The statistician was given a class list of 69 people and asked to randomly assign them to groups A and B. The statistician did not know what A and B meant.
Intervention model description
A randomized controlled design with intervention and control groups.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* being a first-year class nursing student * older than 18 ages * volunteering to participate * giving consent
Exclusion criteria
* with a disability to practice yoga, hearing, and visual impairment * unwillingness to continue participating in the study and school absenteeism
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mindful Attention Awareness Scale | 15 weeks | The scale consists of fifteen items and consists of one dimension. The 6-point Likert-type scale has a rating scale of 1=almost always, 2=most of the time, 3=sometimes, 4=rarely, 5=very rarely, 6=almost never. While this scale provides a single total score, high scores indicate high levels of mindfulness |
| Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) | 15 weeks | The PSS, which consists of a total of 10 items, was developed to measure the extent to which certain situations in a person's life are perceived as stressful. Participants rated each item on a 5-point Likert-type scale ranging from Never (0) to Very often (4). While The scores of the PSS-10 range from 0 to 40 and from 0 to 16. A high score indicates an increased perception of stress |
Countries
Turkey (Türkiye)
Outcome results
None listed