Yoga was linked with lower stress and better sleep in health care workers
A systematic review suggests yoga may support stress, mood, sleep, and well-being for health care workers in high-pressure pandemic settings. Health care workers faced intense strain. Yoga was tested as support. The review found generally positive results. Quick summary What the study found: Across 11 eligible studies, yoga interventions for health care workers were consistently […]
Tang ping is linked with mixed mental health patterns among Chinese youth
A review links “Tang ping” with both distress and relief, framing it as a coping spectrum rather than one behavior. “Lying flat” is not simple. Context matters. Mental health links run both ways. Quick summary What the study found: The PLOS One paper A scoping review of “Tang ping” (Lying flat) and mental health status […]
Poor sleep and weaker social ties linked with higher anxiety symptoms
Sleep, work status, social contact, exercise, and earlier adversity clustered with anxiety symptoms in a large cross-sectional analysis. A PLOS Mental Health paper links everyday life context with anxiety symptoms, especially sleep and social connection. In Contribution of social determinants to symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder, researchers analyzed data from 4,186 people using several machine […]