Mitigating Rural Adolescent Trauma During COVID-19: Remote Delivery of a Trauma-Informed Yoga Intervention

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Abstract

Given the prevalence of suicide and mental health issues in rural Montana, this intervention is intended to help mitigate stressors that may contribute to poor behavioral and mental health in high school-aged children, which may be exacerbated by the collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. The immediate goal was to measure physical and mental health outcomes in adolescents resulting from a remotely-delivered trauma-informed yoga intervention designed to foster positive youth development and student success. Our study builds on the successes from an initial feasibility pilot study one year prior in order to evaluate a more robust intervention comparing experimental and control group outcomes.

Authors

• Lauren Davis, Montana State University

• Alexandra Aylward, Montana State University