Tele yoga strengthens health: Less stress and better immune values ​​for covid 19 personnel

Tele yoga strengthens health: Less stress and better immune values ​​for covid 19 personnel

COVID-19 pandemic was an immense stress for the health system and had a significant impact on the mental health of health specialists. A method that could help reduce its mental stress is yoga. The research project presented here examined whether yoga, which is offered via video calls (known as tele yoga), can help health employees better deal with stress, sleep problems and emotional challenges.

In terms of future changes, the successful implementation of tele yoga could mean that such digital health programs will continue to be used, even if there is no pandemic. Telemedical approaches could find greater acceptance and become fixed components in healthcare, especially in stressful or particularly demanding times.

To understand the examination, a few terms are important:

• Tele yoga: yoga exercises that are carried out via a digital platform so that the participants can take part from anywhere.
• burnout: A state of emotional, physical and mental exhaustion, often in connection with professional stress.
• sleep quality: How good or bad the sleep is; These include factors such as sleep time, sleeping through and relaxing in the morning.
• depression, fear and stress: psychological conditions that can affect well -being and daily function.
• IL-6, TNF-α, serum cortisol: biological markers who can display the body's immune system and stress level.

abbreviations:

• SPFI: Stanford Professional Fulfilment Index
• PSQI: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index
• Dass-21: Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale
• Maas: Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale
• ppa: by protocol analysis
• Itt: Intention to Treat Analysis

Tele yoga alleviates stress and inflammatory markers in health personnel

This study examines the feasibility and effectiveness of tele yoga on the psychological and physical state of health of health personnel during their covid 19 services. The focus was on the recording of burnout rates, sleep quality, depression, anxiety, stress, mindfulness and immunological markers. A randomized controlled examination was carried out in a tertiary hospital in India to evaluate the effects.

study design and methodology

The study design included an intervention with tele yoga, which was carried out over a period of eight weeks, five times a week. Established scales were used to assess the various parameters: Stanford Professional Fulfilment Index (SPFI) for recording the burnout, the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) for sleep quality, the depression anxiety and stress scale (-21) and the mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (Maas). In addition, blood samples were removed to analyze the concentrations of TNF-α, IL-6 and serum cortisol.

results of the study

of the originally 147 screens included the final sample 90 subjects, divided into 45 participants in the tele yoga and control group. 35 participants in the intervention group took at least 50 % of the sessions, with 37.14 % of the participants visiting more than 70 % of the meetings.

The results showed a significant reduction in the burnout index, the PSQI values ​​and the fear and stress points. The levels of the inflammatory marker IL-6 and serum cortisol were also significantly lower in the Tele Yoga group than in the control group (p <0.05).

conclusions

The study finds that tele yoga offers a practical and accessible method for improving mental health aspects and reducing inflammatory markers in medical staff during panda meters. Due to the limited number of participants and the implementation context within a single facility, the applicability of the results is limited.

Further information on the study is available at the following external link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39521190