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Reductions in anxiety, depression and insomnia in health care workers using a non-pharmaceutical intervention
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...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9485445/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36147990 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.983165 |
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author | Currie, Katherine Gupta, Babu V. Shivanand, Ishan Desai, Amit Bhatt, Shweta Tunuguntla, Hari S. Verma, Sadhna |
author_facet | Currie, Katherine Gupta, Babu V. Shivanand, Ishan Desai, Amit Bhatt, Shweta Tunuguntla, Hari S. Verma, Sadhna |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-94854452022-09-21 Reductions in anxiety, depression and insomnia in health care workers using a non-pharmaceutical intervention Currie, Katherine Gupta, Babu V. Shivanand, Ishan Desai, Amit Bhatt, Shweta Tunuguntla, Hari S. Verma, Sadhna Front Psychiatry Psychiatry 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. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9485445/ /pubmed/36147990 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.983165 Text en Copyright © 2022 Currie, Gupta, Shivanand, Desai, Bhatt, Tunuguntla and Verma. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry Currie, Katherine Gupta, Babu V. Shivanand, Ishan Desai, Amit Bhatt, Shweta Tunuguntla, Hari S. Verma, Sadhna Reductions in anxiety, depression and insomnia in health care workers using a non-pharmaceutical intervention |
title | Reductions in anxiety, depression and insomnia in health care workers using a non-pharmaceutical intervention |
title_full | Reductions in anxiety, depression and insomnia in health care workers using a non-pharmaceutical intervention |
title_fullStr | Reductions in anxiety, depression and insomnia in health care workers using a non-pharmaceutical intervention |
title_full_unstemmed | Reductions in anxiety, depression and insomnia in health care workers using a non-pharmaceutical intervention |
title_short | Reductions in anxiety, depression and insomnia in health care workers using a non-pharmaceutical intervention |
title_sort | reductions in anxiety, depression and insomnia in health care workers using a non-pharmaceutical intervention |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9485445/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36147990 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.983165 |
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