NCT04634175

Yoga Intervention for Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder

Yoga Intervention Practice as a Complementary and Integrative Treatment for Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder: Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Enrolling By Invitation
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Yoga intervention as a complementary and integrative treatment for compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD). The hypothesis is that participants with CSBD, after being submitted to the protocol of the yoga intervention group in relation to those submitted to the intervention protocol Shan of the control group, present less severe sexual compulsiveness.

Detailed description

Yoga intervention practice as a complementary and integrative treatment for compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD), a randomized clinical trial, in a sample of male individuals who spontaneously seek treatment at the Psychiatry Institute of Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo. The volunteers with CSBD will be randomized by statistical software in two groups, yoga intervention practice and Shan intervention practice, to participate in a twelve-week program of daily practices of the mind-body practices protocol. The participants will be evaluated by measuring instruments at time 1 (4th week), time 2 (8th week) and time 3 (12th week). The primary objective of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of yoga intervention practice in decreasing the symptoms (sexual compulsiveness) of the CSBD. The secondary objectives of the study are to investigate the effectiveness of the yoga intervention practice in reducing the severity of impulsivity, hypersexuality, anxiety, depression, improving the level of quality of life, and increasing adherence to total treatment.

Conditions

• Compulsive Sexual Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Yoga intervention	The yoga intervention is composed of kundalini yoga techniques.
BEHAVIORAL	Sham intervention	The sham intervention is composed of stretching and muscle flexion techniques.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-07-15
• Primary completion: 2025-02-24
• Completion: 2025-09-03
• First posted: 2020-11-18
• Last updated: 2025-08-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil