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Effects of Yoga on Children With Cancer
Sponsor: TC Erciyes University
Summary
This study was planned as a randomized controlled experimental study with a pre-test-post-test design to determine the effect of yoga practice accompanied by a specialist yoga instructor on fatigue, quality of life and symptom control in children diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 8-12.The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Does yoga practice applied to children diagnosed with cancer reduce fatigue in children? 2. Does yoga practice applied to children diagnosed with cancer affect their quality of life? 3. Does yoga practice applied to children diagnosed with cancer affect the symptoms experienced by children? Before and after yoga practice, children diagnosed with cancer will answer survey and scale questions about fatigue, quality of life and symptoms.
Official title: The Effect of Yoga Practice on Fatigue Quality of Life and Symptoms in Children With Cancer
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
8 Years - 12 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
20
Start Date
2025-01
Completion Date
2025-12
Last Updated
2024-10-22
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
yoga practise
For the experimental study, the researcher will contact the participants to be included in the study and the intervention (yoga group) and control groups will be randomly created. The participants will be informed about the study by the researcher and their voluntary consent will be obtained. The researcher will provide information about the Identifying Characteristics Form for Children Diagnosed with Cancer and Their Families, the Quality of Life Scale for Children (PedsQL) and the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale to be used in the study. The survey and scales will be applied to each participant individually one day before yoga. Then, the Yoga Group will be applied 3 sessions per week, 3 weeks in a row, each session will be 30 minutes. The researcher will repeat the survey and scale questions that he asked the participants before they started yoga at the end of the 3 weeks.