Jagannathan Aarti, Hamza Ameer, Thirthalli Jagadisha, Nagendra Hr, Nagarathna R, Gangadhar B N
Department of Psychiatric Social Work, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India.
Int J Yoga. 2012 Jan;5(1):42-7. doi: 10.4103/0973-6131.91711.
Yoga has been found to be effective in the management of stress. This paper describes the development of a yoga program aimed to reduce burden and improve coping of family caregivers of inpatients with schizophrenia in India.
Based on the assessment of caregiver needs, literature review, and expert opinion, a ten-day group yoga program was initially developed using the qualitative inductive method of inquiry. Each day's program included warm-up exercises, yogic asanas, pranayama, and satsang. A structured questionnaire eliciting comments on each day's contents was given independently to ten experienced yoga professionals working in the field of health for validation. The final version of the program was pilot-tested on a group of six caregivers of in-patients with schizophrenia admitted at NIMHANS, Bangalore.
On the question of whether the program would help reduce the burden of caregivers, six of the ten experts (60%) gave a rank of four of five (very much useful). Based on comments of the experts, several changes were made to the program. In the pilot-testing stage, more than 60% of the caregivers assigned a score of four and above (on a five-point Likert scale, five being extremely useful) for the overall program, handouts distributed, and performance of the trainer. Qualitative feedback of the caregivers further endorsed the feasibility and usefulness of the program.
The developed yoga program was found to be acceptable to caregivers of in-patients with schizophrenia.
已发现瑜伽在压力管理方面有效。本文描述了一项瑜伽项目的开展情况，该项目旨在减轻印度精神分裂症住院患者家庭照料者的负担并改善其应对能力。
基于对照料者需求的评估、文献综述和专家意见，最初采用定性归纳探究方法制定了一个为期十天的团体瑜伽项目。每天的项目包括热身运动、瑜伽体式、呼吸法和宗教讨论。向十位在健康领域工作的经验丰富的瑜伽专业人员独立发放一份结构化问卷，以征求他们对每天内容的意见进行验证。该项目的最终版本在班加罗尔国家精神卫生和神经科学研究所收治的六名精神分裂症住院患者的照料者群体中进行了试点测试。
在该项目是否有助于减轻照料者负担的问题上，十位专家中有六位（60%）给出了五分之四（非常有用）的排名。根据专家的意见，对该项目进行了几处修改。在试点测试阶段，超过60%的照料者对整个项目、发放的资料和培训师的表现给出了四分及以上的评分（五分制李克特量表，五分表示极其有用）。照料者的定性反馈进一步认可了该项目的可行性和实用性。
已发现所制定的瑜伽项目为精神分裂症住院患者的照料者所接受。
