Effects of practicing yoga on alexisomia: an open-label trial.

IF 2.3 4区 医学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY
Takakazu Oka, Battuvshin Lkhagvasuren
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Background: Alexisomia refers to difficulties in the awareness and expression of somatic feelings. This idea was proposed by Dr. Yujiro Ikemi as a characteristic observed in patients with psychosomatic diseases and is based on his observations that patients with psychosomatic diseases have difficulty in the awareness and expression of not only their emotions, i.e., alexithymia, but also somatic feelings and sensations, i.e., alexisomia. He also proposed that treating alexisomia is important in the treatment of psychosomatic diseases and that yoga might help improve alexisomia. However, no study has investigated if yoga actually affects alexisomia. This open-label pilot study investigated whether practicing yoga in a class results in change in patients with alexisomia and alexithymia.

Methods: The Shitsu-taikan-sho Scale (STSS) and the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) were administered to 305 participants, including 64 healthy participants, 111 participants who had subjective symptoms without abnormal findings, and 130 participants with chronic diseases. Participants were tested before and 3 months after attending yoga classes.

Results: Yoga practice reduced the STSS and the TAS-20 difficulty in identifying feelings (DIF) subscale scores. Multiple linear regression indicated that a reduction in the TAS-20 DIF subscale scores predicted a decrease in the STSS score, whereas reductions in the STSS difficulty in identifying bodily feelings (DIB) and the lack of health management based on bodily feelings (LHM) subscale scores predicted a decrease in the TAS-20 scores.

Conclusion: We found that regular yoga practice improves alexisomia. Yoga-induced improvement of alexisomia may be mediated, at least in part, by an improvement of DIF in alexithymia. Yoga would be a promising therapeutic approach to improve alexisomia.

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练习瑜伽对失读症的影响:一项开放标签试验。
背景:失读症是指在意识和表达身体感受方面的困难。这一观点是由Yujiro Ikemi博士提出的,因为在心身疾病患者中观察到的一个特征,并且基于他的观察,心身疾病患者不仅在意识和表达他们的情绪(即述情障碍)方面有困难,而且在身体的感觉和感觉(即述情障碍)方面也有困难。他还提出,治疗失语症在治疗心身疾病中很重要,瑜伽可能有助于改善失语症。然而,没有研究调查瑜伽是否真的影响失读症。这项开放标签的试点研究调查了在课堂上练习瑜伽是否会导致述情障碍和述情障碍患者的变化。方法:采用Shitsu-taikan-sho量表(STSS)和多伦多述情障碍量表(TAS-20)对305名受试者进行测试,其中健康者64名,主观症状无异常者111名,慢性疾病者130名。参与者在参加瑜伽课程之前和三个月后进行了测试。结果:瑜伽练习降低了STSS和TAS-20情感识别困难(DIF)分量表得分。多元线性回归表明,TAS-20 DIF子量表得分的降低预测了STSS得分的下降,而STSS识别身体感觉困难(DIB)和缺乏基于身体感觉的健康管理(LHM)子量表得分的降低预测了TAS-20得分的下降。结论:我们发现经常练习瑜伽可以改善失语症。瑜伽诱导的述情障碍的改善可以通过述情障碍中DIF的改善来介导,至少部分是这样。瑜伽将是一种很有前途的治疗方法来改善失语症。
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审稿时长
18 weeks
期刊介绍: BioPsychoSocial Medicine is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that encompasses all aspects of the interrelationships between the biological, psychological, social, and behavioral factors of health and illness. BioPsychoSocial Medicine is the official journal of the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine, and publishes research on psychosomatic disorders and diseases that are characterized by objective organic changes and/or functional changes that could be induced, progressed, aggravated, or exacerbated by psychological, social, and/or behavioral factors and their associated psychosomatic treatments.
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