NCT02620033

Impact of Yoga As Complementary Therapy in Patients Undergoing Radical Prostatectomy

Impact of Yoga As Complementary Therapy on Quality of Life, Pro-inflammatory, and Cellular Immune Biomarkers in Patients Undergoing Radical Prostatectomy: A Pilot Randomized-Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 30 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The researchers hope to learn if yoga complementary therapy would improve health-related quality of life, recovery of urinary continence and erectile function in patients who underwent prostate cancer surgery (i.e. radical prostatectomy). We hypothesized that in patients undergoing radical prostatectomy, preoperative and postoperative Yoga complementary therapy would improve health- related quality of life (HRQOL), recovery of urinary continence and erectile function. This two-arm, randomized controlled pilot study will compare Yoga intervention to usual care group. The aim is to evaluate the efficacy of Yoga complementary therapy on HRQOL in patients who underwent radical prostatectomy (RP). Yoga therapy will be given to the intervention group three times in a week for 6 weeks prior to surgery and then initiated 3 weeks after the surgery for another 6 weeks. The yoga exercise will be tailored to the participant's comfort level. As an exploratory analysis, we will evaluate pro-inflammatory and immunological markers.

Conditions

• Prostate Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Yoga therapy

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-09-01
• Primary completion: 2020-06-29
• Completion: 2021-12-31
• First posted: 2015-12-02
• Last updated: 2022-01-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States