TY - JOUR
T1 - An exploration of the effects of Tibetan yoga on patients’ psychological well-being and experience of lymphoma
T2 - An experimental embedded mixed methods study
AU - Leal, Isabel
AU - Engebretson, Joan
AU - Cohen, Lorenzo
AU - Fernandez-Esquer, Maria Eugenia
AU - Lopez, Gabriel
AU - Wangyal, Tenzin
AU - Chaoul, Alejandro
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the Bruce S. Gelb Foundation and the Estate of Jerry J. Moore for partial funding of this project. We would also like to thank Qi Wei for assisting with statistical data analyses. The authors are grateful to the patients who shared with us their innermost feelings and thoughts during this study.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2016.
PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - As an emergent care model combining conventional with complementary therapies, integrative interventions challenge evaluation, necessitating approaches capable of capturing complex, multilevel interactions. This article evaluates the effects of a Tibetan yoga intervention on lymphoma patients’ quality of life and cancer experience. Our methodological aims were to explore differences in therapeutic effect between treatment and control group using qualitative data, and explain equivocal findings between data sets. Use of both data transformation techniques— qualitizing and quantitizing—within an experimental embedded design comparing and integrating data between data sets and treatment groups allowed us to develop this innovative evaluative approach. Findings clarify convergence and divergence between data sets, explore participants’ complex cancer experience, and capture dimensions and intervention effects inaccessible through either method alone.
AB - As an emergent care model combining conventional with complementary therapies, integrative interventions challenge evaluation, necessitating approaches capable of capturing complex, multilevel interactions. This article evaluates the effects of a Tibetan yoga intervention on lymphoma patients’ quality of life and cancer experience. Our methodological aims were to explore differences in therapeutic effect between treatment and control group using qualitative data, and explain equivocal findings between data sets. Use of both data transformation techniques— qualitizing and quantitizing—within an experimental embedded design comparing and integrating data between data sets and treatment groups allowed us to develop this innovative evaluative approach. Findings clarify convergence and divergence between data sets, explore participants’ complex cancer experience, and capture dimensions and intervention effects inaccessible through either method alone.
KW - Cancer
KW - Experimental embedded design
KW - Integrative medicine
KW - Psychological quality of life
KW - Tibetan yoga
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U2 - 10.1177/1558689816645005
DO - 10.1177/1558689816645005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85017902254
SN - 1558-6898
VL - 12
SP - 31
EP - 54
JO - Journal of Mixed Methods Research
JF - Journal of Mixed Methods Research
IS - 1
ER -