Hatha Yoga practice decreases menopause symptoms and improves quality of life: A randomized controlled trial
| Autor: | Danilo Forghieri Santaella, Marcia Pereira Jorge, Isabella M.O. Pontes, Alicia Cabral, Regina H. Silva, Telma Maria Araújo Moura Lemos, Alessandra Mussi Ribeiro, Victor Kenji M. Shiramizu, Ezequiel Batista do Nascimento |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Complementary and Manual Therapy
medicine.medical_specialty Hydrocortisone Population Anxiety law.invention 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Randomized controlled trial Quality of life law Surveys and Questionnaires Hatha yoga Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine education Advanced and Specialized Nursing education.field_of_study 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine business.industry Yoga Beck Depression Inventory Middle Aged medicine.disease Mental health humanities Menopause Complementary and alternative medicine Physical therapy Quality of Life Female medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Complementary therapies in medicine. 26 |
| ISSN: | 1873-6963 |
| Popis: | Objectives Yoga practice includes a group of specific psychophysical techniques. Although previous studies showed beneficial effects of yoga for health and rehabilitation, improving quality of life, there are few studies on the possible therapeutic application of yoga during the climacteric period. The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychophysiological effects of Hatha Yoga regular practice in post-menopausal women. Methods Eighty-eight post-menopausal women volunteered for this 12-week trial. They were randomly assigned to one of three groups: control (no intervention), exercise, and yoga. Questionnaires were applied in order to evaluate climacteric syndrome (Menopause Rating Scale), stress (Lipp Stress Symptom Inventory), quality of life (Brief World Health Organization Quality of Life), depression (Beck Depression Inventory) and anxiety (State/Trait Anxiety Inventories). Physiological changes were evaluated through hormone levels (cortisol, FSH, LH, progesterone and estradiol). Results At 12 weeks, yoga practitioners showed statistically lower scores for menopausal symptoms, stress levels and depression symptoms, as well as significantly higher scores in quality of life when compared to control and exercise groups. Only control group presented a significant increase in cortisol levels. The yoga and exercise groups showed decreased levels of FSH and LH when compared to control group. Conclusions These results suggest that yoga promotes positive psychophysiological changes in post-menopausal women and may be applied as a complementary therapy towards this population. |
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