2013 SYR Accepted Poster Abstracts.
Study Goal
The researchers aimed to investigate the effects of yoga and mindfulness-based interventions across diverse populations and conditions, including stress reduction, mental health, physical health, and behavioral outcomes.
Results Summary
The studies collectively found that yoga and mindfulness interventions improved emotional and behavioral functioning, reduced stress and anxiety, enhanced physical health, and promoted well-being in various populations, including veterans, adolescents, medical students, and individuals with chronic conditions.
Population
Diverse groups including veterans, urban youth, medical students, adolescents, older adults, cancer survivors, and individuals with mental health or chronic conditions.
Effective Dosage
Not specified (varies by study)
Duration
Varies by study (e.g., pilot studies, 8-week interventions, randomized controlled trials)
Interactions
None mentioned
| Intervention | Direction | Endpoint | Population | Dosage | Impact | Claim # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yoga | decrease | performance anxiety | adolescent musicians | - | reduces | #1 |
Yoga | decrease | distress, fatigue, and insomnia | older veteran cancer survivors | - | improves | #2 |
Yoga | increase | physical health | persons with arthritis | - | improved | #3 |
Yoga | neutral | blood pressure | - | - | effects on | #4 |
Yoga | decrease | ruminations | women with major depressive disorder | - | decreased | #5 |
Medical Yoga | neutral | quality of life, blood pressure, and heart rate | patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation | - | effects on | #6 |
Yoga | increase | emotion regulation capacity | adolescents | - | promote | #7 |
Yoga | neutral | stress and attention | second and third grade students | - | effects on | #8 |
Yoga Therapy | increase | memory, attention, and executive function | older adults | - | improving | #9 |
Yoga and Stress Management | decrease | sexual risk-taking behavior increases | college freshmen | - | buffer against | #10 |
Whole-systems Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy | neutral | obesity | - | - | outcomes of | #11 |
Yoga | increase | multiple physical improvements | patients after stroke | - | leads to | #12 |
Ashtanga Yoga-based Health and Wellness Curriculum | neutral | physical and emotional well-being, engagement toward school, and academic performance | K-6 students | - | effects on | #13 |
Yoga | increase | participation | individuals with chronic stroke | - | facilitator for | #14 |
Kundalini Yoga Therapy | neutral | generalized anxiety disorder and co-occurring mood disorder | - | - | versus | #15 |
Yoga | neutral | focus and everyday life of work and relationships | - | - | impact on | #16 |
Yoga | neutral | objective and subjective balance measures | - | - | impact on | #17 |
Yoga | decrease | stress and promotes health and well-being | middle school educators | - | reduces | #18 |
Yoga | increase | emotional and behavioral functioning | middle school children | - | improved | #19 |
SYR 2013 Accepted Poster abstracts: 1. Benefits of Yoga as a Wellness Practice in a Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care Setting: If You Build It, Will They Come? 2. Yoga-based Psychotherapy Group With Urban Youth Exposed to Trauma. 3. Embodied Health: The Effects of a Mind�Body Course for Medical Students. 4. Interoceptive Awareness and Vegetable Intake After a Yoga and Stress Management Intervention. 5. Yoga Reduces Performance Anxiety in Adolescent Musicians. 6. Designing and Implementing a Therapeutic Yoga Program for Older Women With Knee Osteoarthritis. 7. Yoga and Life Skills Eating Disorder Prevention Among 5th Grade Females: A Controlled Trial. 8. A Randomized, Controlled Trial Comparing the Impact of Yoga and Physical Education on the Emotional and Behavioral Functioning of Middle School Children. 9. Feasibility of a Multisite, Community based Randomized Study of Yoga and Wellness Education for Women With Breast Cancer Undergoing Chemotherapy. 10. A Delphi Study for the Development of Protocol Guidelines for Yoga Interventions in Mental Health. 11. Impact Investigation of Breathwalk Daily Practice: Canada�India Collaborative Study. 12. Yoga Improves Distress, Fatigue, and Insomnia in Older Veteran Cancer Survivors: Results of a Pilot Study. 13. Assessment of Kundalini Mantra and Meditation as an Adjunctive Treatment With Mental Health Consumers. 14. Kundalini Yoga Therapy Versus Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Co-Occurring Mood Disorder. 15. Baseline Differences in Women Versus Men Initiating Yoga Programs to Aid Smoking Cessation: Quitting in Balance Versus QuitStrong. 16. Pranayam Practice: Impact on Focus and Everyday Life of Work and Relationships. 17. Participation in a Tailored Yoga Program is Associated With Improved Physical Health in Persons With Arthritis. 18. Effects of Yoga on Blood Pressure: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. 19. A Quasi-experimental Trial of a Yoga based Intervention to Reduce Stress and Promote Health and Well-being Among Middle School Educators. 20. A Systematic Review of Yoga-based Interventions for Objective and Subjective Balance Measures. 21. Disparities in Yoga Use: A Multivariate Analysis of 2007 National Health Interview Survey Data. 22. Implementing Yoga Therapy Adapted for Older Veterans Who Are Cancer Survivors. 23. Randomized, Controlled Trial of Yoga for Women With Major Depressive Disorder: Decreased Ruminations as Potential Mechanism for Effects on Depression? 24. Yoga Beyond the Metropolis: A Yoga Telehealth Program for Veterans. 25. Yoga Practice Frequency, Relationship Maintenance Behaviors, and the Potential Mediating Role of Relationally Interdependent Cognition. 26. Effects of Medical Yoga in Quality of Life, Blood Pressure, and Heart Rate in Patients With Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation. 27. Yoga During School May Promote Emotion Regulation Capacity in Adolescents: A Group Randomized, Controlled Study. 28. Integrated Yoga Therapy in a Single Session as a Stress Management Technique in Comparison With Other Techniques. 29. Effects of a Classroom-based Yoga Intervention on Stress and Attention in Second and Third Grade Students. 30. Improving Memory, Attention, and Executive Function in Older Adults with Yoga Therapy. 31. Reasons for Starting and Continuing Yoga. 32. Yoga and Stress Management May Buffer Against Sexual Risk-Taking Behavior Increases in College Freshmen. 33. Whole-systems Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy for Obesity: Outcomes of a Pilot Study. 34. Women�s Phenomenological Experiences of Exercise, Breathing, and the Body During Yoga for Smoking Cessation Treatment. 35. Mindfulness as a Tool for Trauma Recovery: Examination of a Gender-responsive Trauma-informed Integrative Mindfulness Program for Female Inmates. 36. Yoga After Stroke Leads to Multiple Physical Improvements. 37. Tele-Yoga in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Heart Failure: A Mixed-methods Study of Feasibility, Acceptability, and Safety. 38. Effects of an Ashtanga Yoga-based Health and Wellness Curriculum on Physical and Emotional Well-being, Engagement Toward School, and Academic Performance of K-6 Students. 39. Yoga as a Facilitator for Participation Following an 8-week Yoga for Individuals With Chronic Stroke. 40. Standardization of Design and Reporting of Yoga Interventions for Musculoskeletal Conditions: A Delphi Approach. 41. Creating S.P.A.C.E. Through Yoga: Africa Yoga Project Teachers Promote Personal Transformation, Peaceful Communities, and Purpose-filled Service.