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October 1, 2024Journal of Integrative Medicine and ResearchOpen Access

Postintervention assessment showed a reduction in Perceived Stress Scale score and Hamilton Anxiety Rating scores and improvement in heart rate variability and SF-36 compared to baseline.

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Why the study?

Does a comprehensive yoga and naturopathy intervention improve stress, anxiety, heart rate variability, and quality of life in a patient with social anxiety disorder?

Population

A 32-year-old male diagnosed with social anxiety disorder

Comparison

23-day comprehensive yoga and naturopathy intervention vs baseline

Design

Case report

Follow-up

23-day

Authors

AVA. VijayLNL. NivethithaRAR. Arunthathi

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Overview

May support yoga-naturopathy for SAD; leaves open reproducibility in controlled trials.

Structured PICO

Does a comprehensive yoga and naturopathy intervention improve stress, anxiety, heart rate variability, and quality of life in a patient with social anxiety disorder?

P
Population
A 32-year-old male diagnosed with social anxiety disorder (SAD) and agoraphobia (n=1).
I
Intervention
23-day comprehensive yoga and naturopathy intervention
C
Comparator
Baseline (pre-intervention)
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Outcome
Perceived Stress Scale score, Hamilton Anxiety Rating scores, heart rate variability (HRV), and Short Form (SF)-36 healthy surveypatient reported

A 23-day yoga and naturopathy intervention may improve stress, anxiety, heart rate variability, and quality of life in patients with social anxiety disorder, though larger studies are needed.

Limitations

  • single case report

Cite This Study

Vijay et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a90db7e504d7cdc493e76bfhttps://doi.org/10.4103/jimr.jimr_24_24
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