Effect of online Kundalini Yoga mental health of university students during Covid-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial

• Autor(a) principal: Brandão, Tânia
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Martins, Inês, Torres, Ana, Remondes-Costa, Sónia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/9526
• topic: Autogenic training; Online; Randomized controlled trial; University students; Yoga

University students were at an increased risk for psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a randomized controlled trial, we examined the efficacy of an online Kundalini Yoga intervention on students’ psychological functioning. Healthy university students (N=106) were randomly assigned to a Kundalini Yoga group, an active control group, or a passive control group in a 1:1:1 ratio. The experimental group attended six Yoga sessions over 6weeks and the active control group attended to six autogenic relaxation sessions over 6weeks. All participants completed the study protocol, which involved answering questionnaires related to psychological distress, emotion regulation, self-compassion, self-concept, spiritual well-being, and subjective happiness at three different time points: baseline, at the end of the intervention, and at 1-month follow-up. Results showed that Yoga contributed to improving self-compassion, extrinsic affect improving, and personal and communal spiritual well-being, in comparison to the control groups