Climacteric symptoms and quality of life in yoga practitioners
| Autor: | Ilka Afonso Reis, Laura Alves Cota e Souza, Angélica Alves Lima |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Physical activity Affect (psychology) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Quality of life Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Exercise General Nursing Aged 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine business.industry Yoga Outcome measures Middle Aged medicine.disease humanities Menopause Complementary and alternative medicine Sedentary group Quality of Life Physical therapy Female Chiropractics business Health questionnaire Climacteric human activities Analysis |
| Zdroj: | EXPLORE. 18:70-75 |
| ISSN: | 1550-8307 |
| Popis: | Background Yoga is among the most commonly studied complementary therapies for managing climacteric symptoms. However, it is unclear whether yoga practices in premenopause can affect the occurrence of symptoms when women reach menopause. Objective To assess climacteric symptoms and quality of life in regular yoga practitioners and to determine whether yoga practices before menopause may avoid or mitigate climacteric-related symptoms. Design This study of 108 women between 40 and 65 years old included 28 women who started to practice yoga in premenopause and had already practiced for at least five years, and as controls 30 physical activity practitioners (PA) who had practiced for at least five years, and 50 sedentary women. Main outcome measures Climacteric symptoms were evaluated with the Kupperman Menopausal Index (KMI) and the Women's Health Questionnaire (WHQ). Moreover, we measured the quality of life with the WHQ. Results The KMI showed that 39.3% of yoga practitioners had no menopausal symptoms, and none reported severe symptoms. The WHQ indicated a few symptoms and a good quality of life for yoga practitioners (3.56; 3.35–3.80). In addition, we found that the yoga group had significantly less moderate and severe symptoms (p = 0.002) compared with the sedentary group. We also observed that yoga practitioners had less vasomotor symptoms and memory/concentration disorders than PA practitioners (p = 0.010 and p = 0.047) and sedentary women (p = 0.001 and p = 0.001) and also used fewer drugs than the PA (p Conclusions Yoga practitioners who started to practice in premenopause had satisfactory results on the frequency and intensity of climacteric symptoms and quality of life. Although further research is required to support our findings, we conclude that yoga practice may represent an efficient non-pharmacological approach to manage and prevent climacteric symptoms. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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