Carolien A C G Duijzer, Shakila Shayan, Arthur Bakker, Marieke F Van der Schaaf, Dor Abrahamson
Touchscreen Tablets: Coordinating Action and Perception for Mathematical Cognition
Frontiers in psychology
introduction covid19 pandemic health care workers hcws experienced increased anxiety depression loneliness mental health issues hcws need additional resources cope mental health impact work yoga techniques could helpful strategies manage different stressors times uncertainty methods prospective singlearm trial examined effects brief pranayama yoga practice wellbeing hcws height covid19 hcws recruited announcements institutional websites large major cancer center southern united states short prerecorded 5min breathwork video intervention called simha kriya provided participants encouraged practice one two times daily 4 weeks participants completed selfreport instruments baseline weeks 1 4 including 1 perceived stress scale pss 2 brief resilient coping scale brcs 3 questionnaire assessing experience covid19 among hcws five subscales hcws also conducted measure breath holding time paired sample ttests mixedeffects analysis variance models examined changes time results one hundred participants consented study 88 female 60 white 39 worked remotely 27 clinical staff sixtynine participants provided data week 1 56 week 4 participants adherence breathing exercises weeks 1 4 similar mean six times per week week 4 significant decreases covid19 distress score p 00001 covid19 disruption p 0013 yet changes pss also significant increases covid19 stress management p 00001 brcs scores p 0012 changes perceived benefits covid19 changes breath holding time discussion brief yogabased breathing practices helped reduce pandemicspecific stress improved resilience stress management skills hcws trial registration number nct04482647