Iyengar-Yoga Compared to Exercise as a Therapeutic Intervention during (Neo)adjuvant Therapy in Women with Stage I–III Breast Cancer: Health-Related Quality of Life, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Life Satisfaction, and Cancer-Related Fatigue
Table 2
Significant differences of outcome variables between both groups at baseline.
Variables
value
Quality of life: EORTC’s functional scales
Global health score
0.917
Physical functioning
0.190
Role functioning
0.753
Emotional functioning
0.060
Cognitive functioning
0.164
Social functioning
0.697
Quality of life: EORTC’s symptom scales
Nausea and vomiting
0.923
Pain
0.721
Dyspnea
0.347
Sleep disturbance
0.544
Appetite loss
0.360
Constipation
0.225
Diarrhea
0.487
Fatigue
0.434
Other health-related variables
Cancer-related fatigue (CFS-D)
0.141
Life satisfaction (BMLSS)
0.480
Spirituality
Mindfulness (FMI)
0.179
Spiritual search (SpREUK)
0.214
Religious trust (SpREUK)
0.811
Reflection (SpREUK)
0.903
Significant at a significance level of 5% (-test for normal distributed variables was used for CFS-D, FMI, BMLSS, and EORTC’s global health; all other variables were nonnormally distributed and thus the Mann-Whitney test was used).
