NCT05645588

Pranayama for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Pranayama for Outpatients With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: a Randomized-controlled Trial

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (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 pranayama (yoga-breathing techniques) on post-traumatic symptom severity in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder undergoing standard, out-patient, trauma-focused psychotherapy. Therefore, short pranayama sessions of 5-10 minutes will be provided to the patients directly at the begin of each of psychotherapy unit, while the control group will receive standard, trauma-focused psychotherapy alone.

Conditions

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Pranayama assisted trauma-focused standard psychotherapy (TF-SPT)	To prepare patients for the TF-SPT, they received 5-10 minutes of pranayama at the begin of each of the 10 TF-SPT units.
BEHAVIORAL	Trauma-focused standard psychotherapy (TF-SPT)	Patients wait for 10 TF-SPT units and then are offered to learn pranayama

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-01-01
• Primary completion: 2027-02-01
• Completion: 2028-02-01
• First posted: 2022-12-09
• Last updated: 2025-03-30