Exploring the Effects of a Yoga Intervention on Stress and Coping Self-Efficacy on People Living With HIV: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Background: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains a serious challenge to public health. Stress is a primary issue affecting HIV care because it is highly prevalent among people living with HIV and negatively affects quality of life in this population. Purpose: This study was designed to examine the efficacy of a yoga intervention in reducing stress and enhancing coping self-efficacy in people with HIV. Methods: A parallel-group, randomized controlled trial with single blinding and repeated measures was used. The intervention group engaged at home in eight biweekly online Hatha yoga classes of 120 min (two 60-min sessions) in length. The effects were assessed at baseline, at the end of the 2-month intervention, and at 1 month after the end of the intervention. Results: Sixty-six people were enrolled as participants, five of whom were lost to follow-up at the second assessment. Sixty-one participants took part in the third assessment. After practicing yoga for 8 weeks, the intervention group had lower mean stress scores and higher mean coping self-efficacy scores than the control group. Conclusions/Implications for Practice: The yoga intervention applied in this study was shown to effectively reduce perceived stress and strengthen coping self-efficacy in patients with HIV. This study adds evidence gathered in a new social context (Bali, Indonesia) to existing research showing practicing yoga to be effective in reducing stress in patients with HIV. Yoga is a promising complementary intervention that may be offered to patients with HIV suffering from stress.

• Publication year

  2026

• Venue

  Journal of Nursing Research

• Publication date

  2026-01-12

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1097/jnr.0000000000000719PMID 41511164PMCID 12863584
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• HIV-related stress predicts depression over five years among people living with HIV

  2023cited by this paper
• Reducing HIV-associated post-hospital mortality through home-based care in South Africa: a randomized controlled trial.

  2023influential reference
• Strategies to improve the care of older adults 50 years and above living with HIV in Uganda

  2023cited by this paper
• Lessons From India: A Narrative Review of Integrating Yoga Within the US Healthcare System

  2023cited by this paper
• The Impact of Exercise Interventions on Perceived Self-Efficacy and Some Other Psychological Outcomes in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  2023cited by this paper
• The Brief History of Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine Terminology and the Development and Creation of an Operational Definition

  2023cited by this paper
• Effectiveness of quality-of-life counselling with hatha yoga among human immunodeficiency virus-infected adolescents: Randomised control trial

  2022cited by this paper
• Relationships Between Stress-Responsive Biomarkers, ART Adherence, and Viral Suppression Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women Living With HIV in South Africa: An HPTN 068 Analysis

  2022cited by this paper
• Effects of Yoga and Mindfulness Programs on Self-Compassion in Medical Professionals during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Intervention Study

  2022cited by this paper
• Management of Mental Health Disorders in Patients With Human Immunodeficiency Virus

  2022cited by this paper
• OUP accepted manuscript

  2021cited by this paper
• HIV Stigma and Discrimination: Perspectives and Personal Experiences of Healthcare Providers in Yogyakarta and Belu, Indonesia

  2021cited by this paper
• COPING SELF EFFICACY AND RESPONSE TO UNCERTAINTY IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

  2021cited by this paper
• Changes in Pain Self-Efficacy, Coping Skills and Fear Avoidance Beliefs in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Yoga, Physical Therapy, and Education for Chronic Low Back Pain.

  2021cited by this paper
• Immunological and Psychological Efficacy of Meditation/Yoga Intervention Among People Living With HIV (PLWH): A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses of 19 Randomized Controlled Trials.

  2020cited by this paper
• Rapid deployment of virtual mind-body interventions during the COVID-19 outbreak: feasibility, acceptability, and implications for future care

  2020cited by this paper
• Feasibility and Impact of a Yoga Intervention on Cognition, Physical Function, Physical Activity, and Affective Outcomes among People Living with HIV: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial

  2020cited by this paper
• Psychometric Measurement of Perceived Stress among Midwives at Primary Health Care Province of Central Java Indonesia

  2019cited by this paper
• A randomized trial of yoga for stress and substance use among people living with HIV in reentry.

  2018influential reference
• Effect of a 16-week Bikram yoga program on perceived stress, self-efficacy and health-related quality of life in stressed and sedentary adults: A randomised controlled trial.

  2017cited by this paper
• Effect of Integrated Yoga (IY) on psychological states and CD4 counts of HIV-1 infected patients: A randomized controlled pilot study

  2016cited by this paper
• A Pilot Feasibility and Acceptability Study of Yoga/Meditation on the Quality of Life and Markers of Stress in Persons Living with HIV Who Also Use Crack Cocaine

  2015cited by this paper
• Who's Stressed? Distributions of Psychological Stress in the United States in Probability Samples from 1983, 2006, and 2009

  2012cited by this paper
• A validity and reliability study of the coping self-efficacy scale.

  2006cited by this paper
• Randomized controlled trials.

  2004cited by this paper
• A global measure of perceived stress.

  1983cited by this paper

• No citing papers are available for this paper.