A Yoga and Compassion Meditation Program Reduces Stress in Familial Caregivers of Alzheimer's Disease Patients

Table 1

Frequency of the distribution of the phases of stress manifestation among the sampled individuals according to group before and after intervention.

Phases of stress manifestation	Before intervention	After intervention
	Control group	Control group
Absence	0 (0)	0 (0)
Alert	0 (0)	0 (0)
Resistance	18 (86)	16 (76)
Quasiexhaustion	3 (14)	4 (19)
Exhaustion	0 (0)	1 (5)
	YCMP group	YCMP group^&
Absent	0 (0)	17 (68)*
Alert	0 (0)	0 (0)
Resistance	20 (80)	8 (32)*
Quasiexhaustion	3 (12)	0 (0)
Exhaustion	2 (8)	0 (0)

Data described as frequency (percentage); ^&𝑃<0.05: differs from control group, chi-square test; ^∗𝑃<0.05: differs from time-point before intervention, McNemar’s test.
YCMP: yoga and compassion meditation program.