title: Yoga for Children and Adolescents After Completing Cancer Treatment.
abstract: Survivors of childhood cancer may experience persistent symptoms, including fatigue, sleep disturbance, and balance impairment. Yoga is a complementary therapy that improves fatigue, sleep, and quality of life in adult cancer survivors. Using a one group, repeated measures design, we evaluated the feasibility of a yoga program and assessed if cancer survivor participants ages 10 to 17 years (n = 13) had significantly less fatigue and anxiety, and better balance and sleep, after a 6-week yoga intervention compared with a 6-week pre-intervention wait period. Study recruitment was challenging with a 32% enrollment rate; yoga attendance was 90%. None of the scores for anxiety, fatigue, sleep, and balance had significant changes during the wait period. After the 6-week yoga program, children (n = 7) had a significant decrease in anxiety score (P = .04) while adolescent scores (n = 7) showed a decreasing trend (P = .10). Scores for fatigue, sleep, and balance remained stable post-intervention. Fatigue and balance scores were below norms for health children/adolescents while sleep and anxiety scores were similar to healthy peers.
authors: University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Minneapolis, MN, USA Children's Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA hook0035@umn.edu.
authors: Mary C
authors: MC
authors: Hooke
authors: Children's Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
authors: Laura
authors: L
authors: Gilchrist
authors: Children's Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
authors: Laurie
authors: L
authors: Foster
authors: Children's Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
authors: Mary
authors: M
authors: Langevin
authors: University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
authors: Jill
authors: J
authors: Lee
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002648:Child; D005221:Fatigue / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008910:Minnesota / Q000453:epidemiology; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000628:therapy; D011788:Quality of Life; D012107:Research Design; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D015013:Yoga / Q000523:psychology
keywords: pediatric cancer; survivorship; symptoms; yoga