Major Themes for Trauma-informed Yoga Qualitative Report by Valerie Do

Interpreters help to translate, facilitate movements and actively collaborate to yoga classes

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Interpreters enriching the cultural context for yoga classes

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Financially difficult to book more interpreters

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Yoga increases bodily awareness, mind-body connection

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Yoga increases social connection

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Outcome measures are meaningless and indigestible for yoga participants

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Theme: Cultural differences, literacy levels of trauma prevent accurate measurement of outcome measures.

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Does this work? "Cultural differences and variations in health literacy influence the appropriateness of using standardised outcome measures"

Difficult on understanding outcome measures even though translated

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Theme: Yoga participant's changes over time - mentally, emotionally and/or physically

Reduction in pain following yoga classes

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Group discussion is valuable and bring confidence to speak out

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Including other outcome measures such as the BPI index more

Group Discussion questions need to be very simple

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Have time for themselves during classes

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Developing functional capabilities & sense of community

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Theme: Integration of a combination Yoga, meditation and active therapy for trauma-informed refugee women for physical and psychological effects

Temporary theme: Future outcome measures should reflect major aims: pain reduction, community connectedness, self awareness

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Future recommendations on selection and application of outcome measure for refugees or trauma survivors and strategies to enhance the feasibility and cultural validity of the existing outcome measures focusing on pain reduction, community connectedness and self awareness

Group discussion allow participants to draw insight from each other and help develop the richness of the conversation

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Focused group discussion promotes comfortable space to share feedbacks

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Increased abilityto understand different body sensations and impacts (physically and emotionally)

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Aim: provide space for group discussion about body, moods

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desired outcomes/aim: emotional regulation & stress management

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Prioritize participants' comfort, not fit them in our framework (e.g doing outcome measure)

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Current outcome measures not reflecting full picture

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Recalling of emotions may not be reliable

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Unifying the body and mind through yoga

Focused group: allow participants to resonate and relate to each other

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Other participants translating for women who don't speak English or for those that aren't bilingual

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non-verbal instructions

Mixed methods evaluation gives people a voice

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difficulty in questionnaires when they don't understand English

Participation in yoga improves confidence & communication skills (verbal & non-verbal

valeriedo22 — 2025-08-19 01:20:23 UTC

Yoga teachers want more improved and standardised outcome measure

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Time constrains for one interpreter to interpret for everyone

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Theme: Participation in trauma-informed yoga classes enhances self awareness, emotion regulation and sense of community

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Participants learn how to take care of themselves and then apply in their daily life

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Theme: Focused group discussion enriches interpersonal connection and self-empowerment through voice

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Theme: Beyond translation: Interpreters facilitate culturally sensitive experience and active collaboration of participants

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Future directions: Engage interpreters to overcome language barriers and increase cultural sensitivity (?)—> Connect to first (Red) theme

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The 30 mins social gathering with food and drinks after yoga class is helpful to gather participants feedback, but it is informal

Visual analogue scale as it does not require a lot of English and translation

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Simple questionnaires/outcome measures are preferred

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participants' mood that day would impact how they fill in the outcome measure, which lead to inaccuracy

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Allow participants to express themselves and let them know that their opinion is valuable and important

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Yoga councillor suggestion: Let yoga teachers be the group facilitators can make participants feel comfort and will be more open to express with snacks, not make focus group sounds like a "separate task". Smaller groups like 6 people can help give everyone a chance to express.