Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, USA.
Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM), University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
J Altern Complement Med. 2021 Sep;27(9):778-785. doi: 10.1089/acm.2020.0506. Epub 2021 Jun 1.
Benefits, risks, and the increasing popularity of yoga use warrant assessing yoga practice prevalence and users' profiles. This study describes trends in yoga practice exclusively among American adults from 2002 to 2017, compares the profile of yoga users, and identifies factors related to yoga use over time. This study is a secondary analysis done in 2019 and 2020 using the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017 data. Population weights were used to obtain statistically accurate estimates of yoga use prevalence for the U.S. population. Descriptive statistics were used to profile the sociodemographic and health-related characteristics of yoga users. Multivariable logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with yoga use in each cohort defined by the NHIS year. Yoga practice prevalence nearly tripled from 5.1% in 2002 to 13.7% in 2017 (weighted estimate 10,386,456 and 32,761,194 American adults, respectively). Typical yoga users were young non-Hispanic single white female adults with bachelor or higher education and health insurance, and resided in the west region of the United States. Yoga use pattern change over time was significantly related to only younger age ( < 0.001) but not to other sociodemographic or health-related factors. Yoga has gained increasing popularity in the past two decades among American adults, with younger adults being the driving force. Yoga appears to be adopted for general well-being or prevention more than for specific disease treatment. Future research should evaluate how yoga can be effectively and safely integrated into preventive medicine strategies.
瑜伽的益处、风险以及日益普及，使得评估瑜伽练习的流行程度和使用者特征变得至关重要。本研究描述了 2002 年至 2017 年期间美国成年人中瑜伽练习的趋势，比较了瑜伽使用者的特征，并确定了与随时间推移瑜伽使用相关的因素。本研究是 2019 年至 2020 年期间使用国家健康访谈调查（NHIS）2002、2007、2012 和 2017 年数据进行的二次分析。使用人口权重获得了美国瑜伽使用流行率的统计准确估计。描述性统计用于分析瑜伽使用者的社会人口学和与健康相关的特征。多变量逻辑回归用于确定每个 NHIS 年份定义的队列中与瑜伽使用相关的因素。瑜伽练习的流行率从 2002 年的 5.1%几乎翻了三倍，达到 2017 年的 13.7%（加权估计值分别为 10386456 和 32761194 名美国成年人）。典型的瑜伽使用者是年轻的非西班牙裔白人单身女性成年人，拥有学士或更高学历和医疗保险，居住在美国西部。瑜伽使用模式随时间的变化仅与年龄较小（<0.001）显著相关，而与其他社会人口学或与健康相关的因素无关。在过去的二十年中，瑜伽在美国成年人中越来越受欢迎，年轻人是推动力量。瑜伽似乎更多地是为了一般健康或预防而采用，而不是为了特定疾病的治疗。未来的研究应该评估如何将瑜伽有效地和安全地融入预防医学策略中。
