Qigong for mental health and sleep quality in postmenopausal women: A randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Menopause is one of the stages in a woman's life that affects her psychological health, the most frequent being anxiety and depression. In addition, another problem related to this stage is the lack of sleep that causes a decrease in the quality of sleep. The purpose of this randomized controlled trial was to analyze the effectiveness of a Qigong exercise program on sleep quality, anxiety, and depression in Spanish postmenopausal women.

Methods

A total of 125 women were randomly assigned to an experimental group (EG) (n = 63) that carried out a Qigong exercise program for 12 weeks, or a control group (CG) (n = 62), which did not perform any type of intervention. Sleep quality was assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and anxiety and depression u

SUBMITTER: Carcelen-Fraile MDC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9524897 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature