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Yoga practice in mental health – An innovative lowcost solution for the portuguese airforce

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datacite.subject.sdg03:Saúde de Qualidade
datacite.subject.sdg04:Educação de Qualidade
datacite.subject.sdg08:Trabalho Digno e Crescimento Económico
dc.contributor.authorMelo, Filipe
dc.contributor.authorCabo, Carolina Alexandra
dc.contributor.authorEspada, Mário C.
dc.contributor.authorFernandes, Orlando
dc.contributor.authorParraca, Jose A.
dc.contributor.authorSantos, Sara
dc.date.accessioned2026-05-11T10:06:25Z
dc.date.available2026-05-11T10:06:25Z
dc.date.issued2025-03en_US
dc.date.updated2026-05-09T18:38:57Z
dc.description.abstractBackground: Military aviation demands cognitive performance, emotional stability, and resilience under pressure (1). Yoga’s capacity to reduce stress and enhance mindfulness makes it a promising intervention for aviation pilots (2). Despite these potential benefits, research on yoga’s impact in military aviation re-mains limited. Purpose: This study investigates the incorporation of yoga into the training regimen of Portuguese military pilots for enhancing mindfulness, reducing stress and improving mental health. Methods: A randomized controlled trial with Portuguese Airforce pilots had the Control Group (n = 8), follow standard military aviation training, and the Intervention Group (n = 10), receive additional yoga training twice a week for 12 weeks. Cognitive/performance assessments included: Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (3); Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (4); Aviation Safety Attitude Scale (5); Risk Perception To Self (6); Trail Making Test (7). Data analysis used Jamovi v2.6.13. Results: Significant changes were found in FFMQ (Aware Actions and Non-Judgmental Inner Critic), MA-IA (Noticing, Attention Regulation, and Body Listening), ASAS (Self-Confidence, Risk Orientation, and Safety Orientation) and TMT (B) within the yoga group. Discussion: Significant improvements in mindfulness (FFMQ) and interoceptive awareness (MAIA) sug-gest that yoga fosters better self-regulation and stress management (8). Enhanced cognitive flexibility (TMTB) performance, highlights yoga’s potential to bolster decision-making under pressure. Gains in safe-ty-related attitudes paired with risk-related attitudes (ASAS) underscore yoga’s role in promoting calculat-ed-risk confident behaviour, critical for operational safety. Implementing yoga programs could yield wide-spread benefits, including better mental health among aviation pilots. Conclusion: This research offers a unique contribution: studying the hard-to-access population of military aviation pilots, due to security and workload constraints. Results could influence policymakers to imple-ment mandatory exercise programs, enhancing work safety, with low cost and minimally time-consuming interventions. These insights are also applicable to Airforce teams in other nations, commercial and civil aviation sectors, as well as high stress/high-performance sports.eng
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.identifier.doi10.13140/RG.2.2.10641.75363
dc.identifier.slugcv-prod-4610307
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/28916
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherPolitécnico de Santarém
dc.relationComprehensive Health Research Center - Research, Education, Training and Innovation in Clinical research and Public Health
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectMindfulness
dc.subjectOccupational health
dc.subjectAshtanga vinyasa yoga
dc.subjectMilitary health
dc.subjectExercise program
dc.titleYoga practice in mental health – An innovative lowcost solution for the portuguese airforceeng
dc.typeconference objecten_US
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.awardNumberUIDP/04923/2020
oaire.awardTitleComprehensive Health Research Center - Research, Education, Training and Innovation in Clinical research and Public Health
oaire.awardURIinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDP%2F04923%2F2020/PT
oaire.citation.conferenceDate2025-02
oaire.citation.conferencePlaceSantarém
oaire.citation.titleIII CIEQV CONGRESS 2025
oaire.fundingStream6817 - DCRRNI ID
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
person.familyNameSantos
person.givenNameSara
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-7995-0804
project.funder.identifierhttp://doi.org/10.13039/501100001871
project.funder.nameFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
rcaap.cv.cienciaid7912-05CF-0542 | Sara Santos
rcaap.rightsopenAccessen_US
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