Many strategies have been developed to prevent and to treat this disease. Obviously, these data highlight a huge economic impact associated to this condition, beyond health aspects. A total of 12.8 million working days are lost due to work-related stress, depression, or anxiety, with a mean value of 21.2 days lost per case. 500,000 new or longstanding cases, with a prevalence rate of 1800 per 100,000 workers. Its incidence is even higher than the incidence of musculoskeletal problems among workers: 600,000 vs. Indeed, work-related stress is identified as a widespread pathology with a huge economic burden, mainly explained by loss of productivity and direct and indirect related sanitary assistance. It has a relevant role in the onset of cardiovascular, musculoskeletal and mental health disorders, as previously demonstrated in literature.Ī recent statement of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work highlights a worrying scenario about this topic. Work-related stress can be defined as an emotional consequence occurring when the workplace demand exceeds the worker’s ability to cope with it, causing potential detrimental physical effects. Further high-quality studies are needed to improve the validity of these results and to specify more characteristics of the Yoga intervention, such as style, volume, and frequency. Hence, workplace Yoga interventions were more effective when compared to no treatment in work-related stress management. Quantitative analysis showed an overall effect size of −0.67 in favor of Yoga intervention in reducing stress outcome measures. Included studies showed “some concerns” about different domains of source of bias. Out of 3392 initially identified, 6 studies were included in the meta-analysis 266 participants practicing Yoga interventions at worksite were compared to 221 subjects in control group. All forms and styles of Yoga were considered for the analysis.
Clinical trials comparing workplace Yoga interventions to control groups, and evaluating perceived stress as outcome measure, were assessed for eligibility. Springerlink, MEDLINE, PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, Scopus, Cochrane CENTRAL and PEDro databases were searched. Therefore, this study aims systematically to review the effectiveness of Yoga interventions carried out at workplace on work-related stress among employees and to assess their impact quantitatively. Yoga is a common approach to manage stress and its effectiveness has been extensively confirmed. Work-related stress represents a relevant public health issue and solution strategies are mandatory.
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