Feasibility and assessment of outcome measures for yoga as self-care for minorities with arthritis: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While there is a growing interest in the therapeutic benefits of yoga, minority populations with arthritis tend to be under-represented in the research. Additionally, there is an absence of guidance in the literature regarding the use of multicultural teams and sociocultural health beliefs, when designing yoga studies for a racially diverse population with arthritis. This pilot study examined the feasibility of offering yoga as a self-care modality to an urban, bilingual, minority population with osteoarthritis (OA) or rheumatoid arthritis (RA), in the Washington, DC area.

Methods

The primary objective of the study was to assess the feasibility of offering an 8-week, bilingual yoga intervention adapted for arthritis to a convenience sample of primarily Hispanic an

SUBMITTER: Middleton KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5819213 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature