Swami Vivekananda Yoga Research Foundation (A Yoga University), Bangalore, India.
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2007 Dec;4(4):503-9. doi: 10.1093/ecam/nem069.
A month after the December 2004 tsunami the effect of a 1 week yoga program was evaluated on self rated fear, anxiety, sadness and disturbed sleep in 47 survivors in the Andaman Islands. Polygraph recordings of the heart rate, breath rate and skin resistance were also made. Among the 47 people, 31 were settlers from the mainland (i.e. India, ML group) and 16 were endogenous people (EP group). There was a significant decrease in self rated fear, anxiety, sadness and disturbed sleep in both groups, and in the heart and breath rate in the ML group, and in the breath rate alone in the EP group, following yoga (P < 0.05, t-test). This suggests that yoga practice may be useful in the management of stress following a natural disaster in people with widely differing social, cultural and spiritual beliefs.
2004 年 12 月海啸发生一个月后，研究人员评估了为期一周的瑜伽课程对安达曼群岛 47 名幸存者的自评恐惧、焦虑、悲伤和睡眠障碍的影响。同时还记录了心率、呼吸率和皮肤电阻的变化。在这 47 人中，有 31 人是来自大陆的定居者（即印度，ML 组），16 人是当地居民（EP 组）。瑜伽练习后，两组人群的自评恐惧、焦虑、悲伤和睡眠障碍均显著下降，ML 组的心率和呼吸率也显著下降，EP 组仅呼吸率下降（P < 0.05，t 检验）。这表明，瑜伽练习可能对不同社会、文化和精神信仰的人群在自然灾害后应对压力有用。
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