COVID-19 and Youth Mental Health: What about Yoga intervention?

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic health emergency we are facing leads to an increase in mental health problems in the adolescent and pediatric population. Yoga has been proposed as a non-pharmacological intervention for mental issues and disorders, either alone or in combination with other interventions. This research analyzes recent literature data in order to explore the effect of Yoga practice in the age of infancy and adolescence and its potential efficacy during a period of stress such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Literature was searched using PubMed and Cochrane for Covid-19-related mental-health issues in the developmental age and Yoga-based intervention for adults and adolescents during the current pandemic. Yoga may prove an effective, evidence-based preventive or therapeutic supplementary or alternative integrate intervention for Covid-19 related mental health issues in the age of infancy and adolescence but before suggesting its adoption as such an alternative or complementary intervention it is necessary to conduct a well-planned study.