Perceived stress mediates the effect of yoga on quality of life and disease activity in ulcerative colitis. Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial

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OBJECTIVE: Yoga positively affects health-related quality of life and disease activity in ulcerative colitis. The underlying modes of action remain unclear. Within the present study we hypothesized that patients´ perceived stress mediates the effects of yoga on health-related quality of life and disease activity.

METHODS: This is a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial comparing the effects of yoga to written self-care advice in patients with inactive ulcerative colitis and impaired quality of life. Perceived stress was assessed using the Perceived Stress Questionnaire, health-related quality of life using the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire and disease activity using the Clinical Activity Index. Outcomes were assessed at weeks 0, 12 and 24.

RESULTS: Seventy-seven patients participated. Thirty-nine patients attended the 12 supervised weekly yoga sessions (71.8% women; 45.0 ± 13.3 years) and 38 patients written self-care advice (78.9% women; 46.1 ± 10.4 years). Perceived stress correlated significantly with health-related quality of life and disease activity at week 24. Perceived stress at week 12 fully mediated the effects of yoga on health-related quality of life (B = 16.23; 95% Confidence interval [6.73; 28.40]) and disease activity (B = -0.28; 95% Confidence interval [-0.56; -0.06]) at week 24.

CONCLUSION: Our findings confirm the importance of perceived stress in reducing disease activity and increasing health-related quality of life in patients with ulcerative colitis and impaired quality of life. Practitioners should keep psychosocial risk in mind as a risk factor for disease exacerbation, and consider yoga as an adjunct intervention for highly stressed patients with ulcerative colitis. CLINICALTRIALS.

GOV REGISTRATION NUMBER: The trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov prior to patient recruitment (registration number NCT02043600).

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:130

Enthalten in:

Journal of psychosomatic research - 130(2020) vom: 15. März, Seite 109917

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Koch, Anna K [VerfasserIn]
Schöls, Margarita [VerfasserIn]
Langhorst, Jost [VerfasserIn]
Dobos, Gustav [VerfasserIn]
Cramer, Holger [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Journal Article
Perceived stress
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Ulcerative colitis
Yoga

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Date Completed 28.09.2020

Date Revised 28.09.2020

published: Print-Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02043600

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jpsychores.2019.109917

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM305260332