Strengths, limitations, and future directions
Yoga-based research studies suffer from shorter interventions and low compliance rates. This impacts the treatment effect of yoga, ultimately diminishing the overall evidence on yoga’s efficacy. However, our study used a longer intervention of 12-weeks, in comparison to past studies which ranged from four to eight weeks of intervention (Longer interventions are associated with greater improvements in outcomes of psychological well-being and behavioral functions (The mHealth-aided intervention allowed HCPs to choose their preferred time and space for practice, enabling them to incorporate it into their busy schedules. Further research can help establish the treatment fidelity of mHealth-aided yoga-based interventions.Our study utilized a unique and thoroughly-researched yoga-based technique called Sudarshan Kriya (Our study lacked blinding among the two groups and an active intervention for the comparator group. Future research can be strengthened by implementing blinding of participants and employing an active or sham intervention for the control group.Researchers are also encouraged to utilize objective psychological, physiological, neurological, endocrine, and immunological outcome measures for deriving possible correlations with the domains of MBI and PQL. Further research is warranted to generalize our findings.