Listen, Breathe, Move – A Pilot Workshop for informal/family caregivers

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The project seeks to pilot a virtually delivered single session workshop to informal/family caregivers (ICGs) incorporating yoga and music therapy. The purpose of the workshop is to investigate the acceptability and feasibility of this novel intervention, which involves combined yoga physical activity and music therapy techniques for guided breathing and relaxation of ICG of adult care receivers (defined as over 18 years of age). ICGs have been noted to experience decreased physical and psychological wellbeing due to the complex demands of their care duties. This workshop seeks to combine techniques from evidenced-based practices to understand more fully the potential acceptance and participation of this population to inform future intervention delivery with a more robust sample size. METHODS: The pilot seeks to deliver the workshop one or two times (max N=10 per session) with participants attending one session. The session will be delivered synchronously via teleconferencing platform with introductory yoga led by a physical activity interventionist and music for guided breathing and music-assisted relaxation led by a music therapy student research assistant. Participants will complete pre test measures including demographic information, caregiving duty information, engagement in music, engagement in physical activity, WHO-5 wellbeing, Health related quality of life (HQoL), and post test measures including WHO-5 wellbeing, HQoL, and perception of the intervention.