Physical and emotional exhaustion in caregivers of children and adolescents with cancer.
Conditions
Interventions
Experimental group: 18 caregivers of children and adolescents in cancer hospital treatment performed from 4 to 6 Hatha-Yoga practices lasting 35 minutes
Control group: 18 caregivers of children with c
Behavioural
Sponsors
Centro de Ciências da Saúde da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Hospital Infantil Nossa Senhora da Glória
Centro de Ciências da Saúde da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Accompanying children and adolescents admitted to HINSG as new cases of cancer; minimum attendance period of 40 weekly hours; absence of prior contact with yoga, meditation or related techniques.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Volunteers who did not agree to participate in the study or who showed interest were very resistant to being absent from their caregivers, or even if they presented psychic limitation to answer the questions of the initial interview. Cases of hospitalization or deaths in a very short period precluding the invitation to participate in the study; hospitalizations with advanced and irreversible impairment of the patient's clinical condition, that is, in palliative care; and the cases of prior knowledge of the volunteer about the diagnosis of the assisted. In the cases of relay of caregivers in care of the same child or adolescent only the participation of a volunteer was allowed, whose choice to participate in the study was based on the above criteria. When caretakers in relay were able to participate in the study a draw was held between them. However, hospitalizations of children or adolescents with many caregivers in relay with uncertainty of a regular return to care were excluded from the study, configuring the non-inclusion of the volunteer during the study period.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Expected outcome 1 Significant decrease in the anxiety state of caregivers of children and adolescents in cancer treatment after the Hatha-Yoga intervention (experimental group) when compared to the initial levels and when compared to the individuals who did not practice the intervention (control group), with confidence limit of 95% corresponding to p less than or equal to 0.05.;Result Found 1 Although the two groups significantly reduced the anxiety state at the end of the intervention period (p-value 0.001 in the experimental group with p-value equal to 0.014 in the control group), the reduction of that state in the experimental group was more At the end, there was a statistically significant difference between the control and experimental groups, where the p value was 0.001.;Expected outcome 2 Significant improvement in levels of subjective well-being of caregivers of children and adolescents in cancer treatment after Hatha-Yoga intervention (experimental group), when compared to these levels at the initial time and when compared to individuals who did not practice the intervention ( This improvement would imply the modification of the following domains: increase of positive affects, decrease of negative affects, increase of levels of satisfaction with positive life and decrease of levels of satisfaction with life, with confidence limit of 95% corresponding to less than or equal to 0.05.;Result Found 2 At the end of the intervention, Hatha-Yoga practitioners (experimental group) increased their levels of positive affects significantly with a p-value of 0.008, while individuals who did not participate in the intervention (control group) presented a small decrease at these levels , but with no significant p-value of 0.286, with a statistically significant difference in these positive affects between the control and experimental groups, where the p-value was 0.005 and negative affection levels decreased significantly in the experimental group with p equal to 0.001, | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| "Secondary outcomes were not expected" | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactMarina Lima Daleprane Bernardi
Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Outcome results
None listed