Table 4.25 Yoga and Mindfulness for the Treatment of Pain Following an ABI
| Author, Year
Country Study Design Sample Size |
Methods | Outcome |
| Combs et al. (2018)
United States Pre-post Ninitial=29 NFinal=19 |
Population: Mean age=32.8yr; Gender: Male=89.5%, Female=10.5%; TBI severity: Mild=3, Severe=12, Other=4, Unknown=10.
Intervention: Individuals attended weekly group sessions for yoga, meditation, and mindfulness. There were 32 sessions in total, each lasting 60mins, where participants could attend as many or as few sessions as they would like. Outcome Measures: Overall health, physical health, experiencing pain, sleep benefits, mood and anxiety, focus and attention, self-awareness. All measures were self-reporting questionnaires. |
1. Correlational analyses revealed that participants believed that the potential benefits of the intervention increased with the number of groups attended for areas of overall health (p<0.001), physical health (p<0.05), mood and anxiety (p<0.001), focus and attention (p<0.05), and self-awareness (p<0.05).
2. The number of sessions attended was significantly correlated to predicting length of stay for overall health and mood (p<0.05). |