Table 2.
Participant characteristics, including comparisons between yoga and control group participants.
| Yoga group (n = 77) | Control group (n = 75) | p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender, male/female | 67/10 (87.0/13.0%) | 66/9 (88.0/12.0%) | 1.00 | |
| Age, M (min–max; SD) | 36.4 (18–53; 9.4) | 34.9 (20–58; 9.9) | 0.20 | |
| Offense in current sentencea | ||||
| Offenses against life and health | 24 (31.2%) | 37 (49.3%) | 0.034 | |
| Offenses against liberty and integrity | 13 (16.9%) | 14 (18.7%) | 0.94 | |
| Sexual offenses | 10 (13.0%) | 13 (17.3%) | 0.60 | |
| Acquisitive offenses | 15 (19.5%) | 8 (10.7%) | 0.20 | |
| Fraud | 6 (7.8%) | 3 (4.0%) | 0.52 | |
| Drug-related offenses | 22 (28.6%) | 13 (17.3%) | 0.15 | |
| Other offenses | 12 (15.6%) | 15 (20.0%) | 0.62 | |
| Length of sentence in months,b M (min–max; SD) | 36.6 (5–168; 31.7) | 44.8 (8–204; 41.9) | 0.24 | |
| Security level, high/medium | 17/60 (22.1/77.9%) | 9/66 (12.0/88.0%) | 0.15 | |
aThe sum is greater than the total number of participants, due to some participants having multiple offenses in their current sentence.
bThree participants were sentenced to life imprisonment and excluded from calculation of sentence length.