Clinical trial NCT02228161: The Effects of Yoga in Mental Health Professional Helpers
Official title: The Effects of Yoga on Work-related Stress and Stress Adaption Among the Professional Helpers of Psychiatry
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Occupation-related Stress Disorder
Keywords: Yoga
Work-related Stress,
Stress Adaptation.
Lead sponsor: Chang Bing Show Chwan Memorial Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2014-08-28
Enrollment: 60
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 20
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: This study will investigate if yoga exercises decrease work-related stress and improve stress adaptation in professional health helpers.

Detailed description: Mental health professional helpers including psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists, social workers and occupational therapists often call upon to maintain a good working attitude and enthusiasm, especially in the face of the evaluators of credential systems as well as supervisors' authorities. The symptoms of work-related stress of professional helpers developed day by days and affected their physical and mental health. Gradually, the professional helpers burned out. Philip Burnard (1991) mentioned professional helpers might self-neglect while helping others. These would lead to over work related stress that directly affects the physical and mental health of the professional helpers, and indirectly affects the organization to take care of the patients and their families.

According to researchers and personal experience, colleagues of mental health care developed work-related stress symptoms, such as insomnia or sleep disorder, the physiological disorders, weight fluctuations, irritable or depressed while taking care of psychiatric patients. They might take tranquilizers in order to maintain the quality of work. On the other hand, in April 2012, the researchers engaged in yoga teaching, assisting mental health care to help others of engaging in yoga practice showed that members perceived positive feelings after the yoga practice: "the mood is more relaxed," "tight body become more relaxed and soft resulting in awareness of tension and unease. This helps to modify long-term adverse stances and reduce body aches and/or sitting." For this reason, researchers began to apply yoga to the release work-related stress and enhance stress adaptation. Professional health helpers look forward to practice yoga exercises to relax work-related stress and improve stress adaptation.

It is a parallel-arm randomized control trial compare the outcome of participants assign to the experimental treatment group (yoga, with 30 participants) with those assign to a control group for 3 months (12 weeks). Experimental group receive regular 60-minutes yoga classes twice a week. We confer the difference of work-related stress relief and stress adaptation and biofeedback improvement after yoga.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Mental Health Professional Helpers.
* Without sport training.
* Age 20\~60.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Musculoskeletal injury.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Decrease work-related stress and improve stress adaptation.
timeFrame: 3 months intervention
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Changhua County
country: Taiwan
facility: Division of Core Laboratory; Chang Bing Show Chwan Memorial Hospital
Study officials:
affiliation: Show Chwan Memorial Hospital & Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology
name: Shu-Hui Yeh Yeh, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Chang Bing Show Chwan Memorial Hospital
name: Shu-Ling Lin, MS
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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