Reductions in anxiety, depression and insomnia in health care workers using a non-pharmaceutical intervention.
| Autor: | Currie K; University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY, United States., Gupta BV; Neuropsych Center of Greater Cincinnati, Sharonville, OH, United States., Shivanand I; SYC Infinite, San Francisco, CA, United States., Desai A; Mayo Medical Center, Lucknow, India., Bhatt S; Mayo Medical Center, Lucknow, India., Tunuguntla HS; Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ, United States., Verma S; The Cincinnati Veterans Administration Hospital, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in psychiatry [Front Psychiatry] 2022 Sep 06; Vol. 13, pp. 983165. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Sep 06 (Print Publication: 2022). |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.983165 |
| Abstrakt: | The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant medical and psychological challenges worldwide, and not only exceeded the capacity of hospitals and intensive care units but also an individuals' ability to cope with life. Health-care workers have continued to provide care for patients despite exhaustion, fear of transmission to themselves and their family, illness or death of friends and colleagues, and losing many patients. They have also faced additional stress and anxiety due to long shifts combined with unprecedented population restrictions, including personal isolation. In this study, we study the effect of an app-based Yoga of Immortals (YOI) intervention on mental health of healthcare workers. In this study, the health care workers were digitally recruited, and their psychological parameters were measured using validated questionaries. The participants were randomly grouped into control and test groups. The validated psychological measures were the Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8), Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD-7) scales. The digital YOI intervention significantly reduced the anxiety, depression symptoms, and insomnia in healthcare workers of all age groups. In contrast, there was no improvement in the control group. This study details the effectiveness of an app-based YOI intervention in healthcare workers. Competing Interests: IS was employed by SYC infinite. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2022 Currie, Gupta, Shivanand, Desai, Bhatt, Tunuguntla and Verma.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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