Effect of an office worksite-based yoga program on heart rate variability: Outcomes of a randomized controlled trial

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Cheema, Birinder S ^a   Houridis, Angelique ^a   Busch, Lisa ^a   Raschke Cheema, Verena ^a   Melville, Geoff W ^a   Marshall, Paul W ^a   Chang, Dennis ^a   Machliss, Bianca ^b   Lonsdale, Chris ^a   Bowman, Julia ^a   Colagiuri, Ben ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Yoga Synergy Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Mood; Physical fitness; Quality of life; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; JOB DESCRIPTIVE INDEX; JOB IN GENERAL SCALE; JOB SATISFACTION; JOB STRESS; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OFFICE WORKER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT FORM 36; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; TREATMENT DURATION; WORKPLACE; YOGA;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITIES; WORKPLACE; YOGA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875964861     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-13-82     Document Type: Article

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