NCT04433793

Yoga Intervention for Reducing Fatigue in Cancer Patients

Yoga Intervention and Reminder E-mails for Reducing Cancer-related Fatigue - a Study Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 167 (actual)
• Sponsor: Wuerzburg University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Cancer patients suffer from severe exhaustion and tiredness that is disproportionate to previous efforts and that cannot be completely reduced by sleep. The effectiveness of an 8 week yoga therapy (one hour a week) in patients with different cancer types on self-reported fatigue will be tested.

Detailed description

Almost 90% of cancer patients suffer from symptoms of fatigue during treatment. Supporting treatments are increasingly used to alleviate the burden of fatigue. This study examines the short-term effects of yoga on fatigue, depression and quality of life. The aim of this study will evaluate the efficacy of yoga for cancer patients with mixed diagnoses reporting fatigue. We will randomly allocate 124 patients to an intervention group (N=62) receiving yoga and a wait-list control group (N=62) receiving yoga 9 weeks later. The yoga therapy will be performed in weekly sessions of 60 minutes each for 8 weeks. The primary outcome will be self-reported fatigue symptoms. Secondary outcome will be depression and Quality of life

Conditions

• Fatigue
• Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Yoga therapy	One yoga session will last one hour. It consists of physical exercises (asanas), conscious breathing (Pranayama) and deep relaxation (Savasana). The subsequent body exercises are structured from lying to sitting to standing. The following sequence of exercises will be repeated in each yoga unit: 1) Relaxation: conscious breathing, body scan, mindfulness 2) Vein pump 3) Pelvis and back rotation (adapted variation of the "nakrasana") 4) Pelvis opening (adapted variation of the "supta baddha konasana") 5) Shoulder bridge ("setu bandha sarvangasana) 6) Forward folds (Paschimottanasana and variations with Pranayama) 7) Backbend: intense east stretch (Purvottasana) 8) Diagonal static yoga cat (Majariasana 1 and resting pose) 9) Standing exercise 10) Upward Salute(Urdhva Hastasana) 11) Warrior 1 (Virabhadrasana 1) 12) Warrior 3 (Virabhadrasana 3) 13) Tree (Vrkasana variation) 14) Relaxation (Savasana).

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-10-12
• Primary completion: 2020-03-16
• Completion: 2020-10-01
• First posted: 2020-06-16
• Last updated: 2020-10-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany