Comparing the effectiveness of Yoga Therapy and Dialectal Behavioural Therapy in the
treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder in women: A systematic review
Introduction:
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is defined as the person experienced, witnessed, or
was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious
injury or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others (APA, 1994).
- Can occur at any age
- Prevalence 10-12%
- PTSD can negatively affect the individual in their daily life, as they will avoid doing similar
things that brought on their trauma and are more likely to stop relating to their friends
(Campbell & Renshaw, 2018).
- The aetiology of PTSD is being involved directly in a traumatic event that causes by
symptoms in four categories: intrusion, avoidance, and damaging changes to moods (APA,
2013
- the psychological needs of women with PTSD often include the need to break out of the
cycle of trauma, reduced anxiety and depression and an improvement in quality of life
(Morse et al., 2014; Papazoglou and Tuttle, 2018).
- Mention various psychotherapies such as pharmological
- Introduce the two therapies the review is looking at DBT and Yoga therapy
- Briefly introduce them
- Aim to develop understanding of the effectiveness of DBT and YT
Method:
- Literature review was conducted to look at effectiveness of dbt and yt
- Electronic search conducted using google scholar and pubmed (details such as years and
words used will be included)
- Exclusion criteria such as pilot studies will be mentioned
- Data extraction by one reviewer (includes characteristics and etc..)
- CASP will be mentioned as quality assessment
Results:
- Flow diagrams will be included
- Table of characteristics
- CASP scoring table included
Main body:
- Define YT therapy
- Studies strengths: Motor vehicle accidents = common experience
- How long sessions lasted and how long study was
- No one had other mental illnesses = results are likely to be pure
- Small sample size = not suitable for global population
- Specific type of yoga = not much understanding
- Trauma based yoga = shows variety of yt across
- Longer studies = detailed results
- Lack of diversity across
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