NCT03748121

Yoga/Pranayama for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Pranayama Assisted Psychotherapy in Patients With Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: a Randomized-controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 74 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universität Duisburg-Essen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to investigate the effect of a pranayama focused yoga intervention on post-traumatic symptom severity in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder undergoing standard psychotherapy/ trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (TF-CBT). Therefore, short pranayama sessions of 5-10 minutes will be provided to the patients directly at the begin of each of standard TF-CBT unit, while the control group will get standard TF-CBT alone. It should further be investigated, whether pranayama can enhance the affective tolerance of patients with post-traumatic stress disorder towards the used exposure techniques of TF-CBT.

Conditions

• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Pranayama assisted trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)	The pranayama intervention is placed directly at the begin of the respective TF-CBT unit and will be repeated for 10 subsequent TF-CBT units. Pranayama contains the performance of Kapalabhati, Ujjayi, and/or Nadi Shodhana (for overall 1 minute) as well as following Kumbhaka (intentional respiratory reflex inhibition). Pranayama will be repeated 3 times before each TF-CBT unit.
BEHAVIORAL	Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)	Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-02-20
• Primary completion: 2020-07-31
• Completion: 2020-07-31
• First posted: 2018-11-20
• Last updated: 2022-12-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany