Bmc Psychiatry
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Meta Analysis
The effect of yoga on sleep quality and insomnia in women with sleep problems: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
To examine the effectiveness and safety of yoga of women with sleep problems by performing a systematic review and meta-analysis. ⋯ This systematic review and meta-analysis demonstrated that yoga intervention in women can be beneficial when compared to non-active control conditions in term of managing sleep problems. The moderator analyses suggest that participants in the non-breast cancer subgroup and participants in the non-peri/postmenopausal subgroup were associated with greater benefits, with a direct correlation of total class time with quality of sleep among other related benefits.