Mindfulness Yoga for Body and Mind Program Promotes Self-Compassion and Depression for Care-Workers

A brief online mindfulness yoga program for care workers (nurses and nursery schoolteachers) reduced depression scores from 11.2 to 9.1 and increased self-compassion scores from 35.8 to 39.9, both statistically significant changes. No significant changes were found in resilience or happiness. Self-compassion correlated positively with resilience and happiness and negatively with depression. The authors argue that mindfulness yoga promotes self-kindness and emotional regulation, contributing to well-being.

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Abstract

Background: Care wokers experience much stress becase of physical and emotional lavor. They often were hurted. Mindfulness yoga is one of the most useful intervention. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate effects of mindfulness yoga on self-compassion, depression, resilience, and happiness of care workers. Method: Participants were 11 care workers consisting of nurses and nursery schoolteachers with the program recruited by flyers. A profession of mindfulness yoga made a program focused on self-compassion. The program was made for promoting self-compassion for about 20 minutes. They received the program online and answered the questions from google scholar. Questionnaires consisted of the Self-Compassion Scale (SC), the K 6 for depression, the Resilience scale (Resilience), and Happiness scale (Happiness). They received the first time and second time after one week at any time. They completed questionnaire before the first practice and after the second practice. Result: The score of K6 significantly decreased from 11.2 to 9.1 (p<.05) and the score of SC significantly increased from 35.8 to 39.9 (p<.05). There was no significance in Resilience and Happiness. There was significant correlation between SC and Resilience (r=.70), SC and Happiness (r=.59), and SC and K6 (r=-.41). K6 correlated with Resilience (r=-.43), and to Happiness (r=-.34). Discussion: Mindfulness Yoga for Body and Mind is useful for self-compassion and depression for care workers. Action of tough or hug for themselves in the program particularly promoted self-kindness, regulated emotions, and affected emotion. The fact that self-compassion, depression, resilience, and happiness related to each other suggest that these variables contribute to well-being.