YOGA FOR EMOTIONAL CONTROL IN CHILDREN WITH ADHD

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common childhood disorders, with several negative social and behavioral consequences. Yoga shows appropriate efficacy in different conditions but is poorly explored during childhood.

Objective:

Analyze the efficacy of yoga in regulating emotions and symptoms in children with ADHD.

Methods:

This experimental study followed up on a control group of 30 children with ADHD. They were randomly allocated group into control (N=15) and experimental (N=15) through the block randomization method. Participants completed the emotion regulation and Conner scale (CBRS) before, after, and 60 days after yoga exercise (20 sessions twice a week).

Results:

After 8 weeks of training, participants’ emotion regulation and ADHD symptoms improved significantly. The improvement in emotion regulation and ADHD symptoms was maintained at follow-up.

Conclusion:

Yoga training proved to be an easy and inexpensive method to improve the mental and physical condition of children with ADHD. Level of evidence II; Therapeutic studies - investigating treatment outcomes.

Keywords:
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity; Yoga; Exercise; Child

Session	content
1th	Purpose and necessity of teaching yoga exercise, sessions, expectations, answering questions
2th	Introduce children, introduce, use ice-breaking techniques to connect members with the researcher and each other
3th	Teaching the technique of breathing through the mouth and nose
4^th	Teaching breathing techniques with awareness of the selected method of breathing through the nose or mouth
5^th	Concentration training with breathing and awareness while sitting and lying down
6^th	Training body stretching and weight bearing exercises
7th	Practice training to bend the joule, bend backwards and bend sideways
8th	Performing combined postures with the lungs in a static position
9th	Perform combined postures with dynamic lung exercises
10^th	Increase children's ability to raise awareness of body parts
11^th	training to relax and reduce muscle tension
12th	Relaxation exercises for limbs by limbs
13^th	exercises for fast and integrated body relaxation
14^th	Exercises to focus on the word or shape with the eyes open
15^th	exercises for focusing on blank paper with your eyes closed
16^th	combined exercises of all stages and summaries

	Variable	Yoga	Control	K-Square
		N (%)	N (%)
	Below25	2(13.3)	6(35.7)
Education	25-35	12(80)	9(64.9)	χ²=6.97 P -value= 0.13
Education	Above 35 years old	1(6.7)	0	χ²=6.97 P -value= 0.13
Children	6	5(33.73)	2(14.3)	χ²=5.91 P –value=0.43
	7	5(33.3)	9(64.3)
	8	0	0
Child AGE	Mean ±SD	32.66±6.76	34.14±4.78	F=0.75 P=0.47
Child AGE	Mean ±SD	6.92±1.55	6.06±1.31	F=0.80 P=0.45

Variables	Group	Pretest	Post Test		Follow-Up		Result
		M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	F	P	eta
Instability of emotion	yoga	31.13	3.46	25.80	3.21	23.40	2.69	21.72	0.01	0.43
	control	31.80	2.54	31.86	2.82	31.46	3.04
	yoga	29.26	2.43	24.33	2.63	21.93	2.37
Inflexibility total score	control	31.06	3.08	30.80	3.89	31.20	3.70	26.60	0.01	0.48
	yoga	59.33	5.05	50.46	4.10	47.53	3.33
	control	60.86	5.02	60.06	5.25	61.00	5.33	31.53	0.01	0.53

variables	time	Post test		Follow up
variables		MD	P	MD	P
instability of emotion	pretest	2.63	0.001*	4.03	0.001*
instability of emotion	Post test	–	0.001*	1.40	–
inflexibility	pretest	2.70	0.001*	3.70	0.001*
inflexibility	Post test	–	–	1.000	0.001*
total score

Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina do Exercício e do Esporte Av. Brigadeiro Luís Antônio, 278, 6º and., 01318-901 São Paulo SP, Tel.: +55 11 3106-7544, Fax: +55 11 3106-8611 - São Paulo - SP - Brazil
E-mail: atharbme@uol.com.br

Acompanhe os números deste periódico no seu leitor de RSS

[1] Corrrespondence: Sheng Wang. Jingzhou, Hubei, China. 434023. Shengwang83@yangtzeu.edu.cn