NCT05748899

Effect of Applying Ujjayi Pranayama on Cortisol in Lupus Patients

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Badr University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 35 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

stress vulnerability is very common in lupus patients, specifically women, hence the rates of depression , insomnia, easy fatigue perception, anxiety are high in those women. pranayama is a yogic intervention that may treat the above problems

Detailed description

lupus patients, specifically 40 women, will divided to group number 1 and group number 2. the women in every group will be 20 women. Group number 1 will receive home-based ujjayi pranayama for six weeks (fifteen minutes in the morning and 15 min in the evening, this training will be online supervised). The group number 2 will not receive Ujjayi pranayama, so it serves as control lupus group

Conditions

• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Ujjayi pranayama	this group will receive home-based daily ujjayi pranayama for six weeks (fifteen minutes in the morning and 15 min in the evening, this training will be online supervised).

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-12-15
• Primary completion: 2023-03-15
• Completion: 2023-03-15
• First posted: 2023-03-01
• Last updated: 2023-03-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt