The influence of Yin yoga intervention for patients with knee osteoarthritis on the aspects of their quality of life and anxiety / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To discuss the influence of Yin yoga for Ⅰ, Ⅱ knee osteoarthritis patients'quality of life and anxiety. Methods Divided 98 patients of Joint department outpatient service with joint specializes into the experimental group and the control group by random number method, there were 49 cases in each group, two group patients all have routine drug therapy that according to the guidelines of diagnosis and treatment of knee osteoarthritis in 2015,and accept the routine health education of orthopaedic. On the basis of this, the experimental group accept Yin yoga exercise training by a professional yoga teacher and nurse, they also followed up the two group of patients for 1 year. And adopting health questionnaire (SF-36) to assess the patient's quality of life on the same day, which they see the doctor ,3 months, 6 months, 12 months, they also use Self-evaluation of the anxiety scale (SAS) to assess the patient's anxiety. Results SAS scores before and after the intervention of patients in the experimental group was (57.14 ± 5.92) and (37.92 ± 3.07) points respectively, the difference was statistically significant (t=15.64, P 0.05. Physiological function, physiological function, body pain, general health, energy, social function, emotional function, mental health of experimental group patients after 12 months intervention was (79.23 ± 9.15), (56.79 ± 13.20), (78.32 ± 10.15), (44.50 ± 11.92), (64.85 ± 9.72), (83.90 ± 11.61), (62.13 ± 18.72), (67.33 ± 8.50) points respectively, while in the control group was (70.22 ± 10.13), (32.12 ± 11.07), (60.14 ± 9.56), (39.40 ± 10.27), (48.66 ± 7.52), (67.62 ± 12.13), (43.23±14.89), (57.00±8.13) points respectively, the difference between the two groups was significant(t=3.18-15.54, P<0.05 or<0.01). Conclusions Yin yoga can improveⅠ,Ⅱknee osteoarthritis patients quality of life and all ease anxiety. The method is feasible.