A Harvard medical study has recently been in the spotlight after revealing the effects of “warmed up” yoga on symptoms of depression. Read what they discovered below.
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- Who is behind this study?
- What does the study say?
- When was it published?
- Because it helps?
- How does the study was realized?
Who is behind this study?
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The Harvard Medical School findings were published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry under the direction of the study’s lead author, Dr. Maren Nyer.
What does the study say?
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According to a clinical trial, people struggling with moderate to severe depression experienced a markedly greater reduction in symptoms with just one weekly hot yoga session, compared to no treatment.
When was it published?
The study was published in 2018.
Because it helps?
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According to the study, 44% of individuals in the hot yoga group reported that their depression scores were so low that their condition was considered to be in remission. Additionally, two-thirds of the hot yoga group noticed a reduction in their overall depression, in contrast to only 6.3% of the group who had to wait to practice yoga.
Nyer explained: “Yoga and heat-based interventions could potentially change the course of treatment for patients with depression by providing a non-medication-based approach with additional physical benefits as a bonus.”
And he added: “We are currently developing new studies with the aim of determining the specific contributions of each element (heat and yoga) to the clinical effects we have observed in depression.”
How does the study was realized?
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Research from Harvard Medical School studied 80 people with depression for 8 weeks. The 80 patients were divided into two groups. The first group was asked to do at least two 90-minute hot yoga sessions each week, while the second group had to wait. Although they were supposed to attend at least twice, attending only one session each week was helpful in reducing depression. On average, participants attended about 10.3 classes over the eight weeks.
The research group then concluded that “heated yoga was associated with a reduction in depressive symptoms and an improvement in other related mental health symptoms, such as anxiety, hopelessness, and quality of life.”
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Source: vtt.edu.vn