NCT06665347

Effect of Yoga on Psychological Aspect and Quality of Life in Premenstrual Syndrome

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 46 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will be carried out to evaluate the effect of yoga on psychological aspect and quality of life in premenstrual syndrome.

Detailed description

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is characterized by a collection of physical, emotional, psychological, and behavioral symptoms that appear in a cyclic and recurring pattern during the late luteal phase of the menstrual cycle and alleviate within two to four days of menstruation. Premenstrual Syndrome has a negative impact on young girls' lives, which can lead to reduced work efficiency and quality of work, increased accidents and lack of school attendance. Therefore, there is a need to develop treatment protocols for coping with premenstrual symptoms. Yoga denotes union and integration and improves biopsychosocial and spiritual wellness. In other words, yoga is a form of mind-body health that combines physical activity with inner-directed mindfulness to achieve self-consciousness through breathing and meditation. So, this study will be conducted to contribute and add new information that may help the field of physical therapy. It will provide an evidence base for the efficacy of yoga on management of psychological aspect and quality of life in premenstrual syndrome, owing to its low cost, and ease use that may lead to improvement of symptoms.

Conditions

• Premenstrual Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Progressive muscle relaxation	The participants will receive progressive muscle relaxation for 8 weeks. The muscles of the hand, arm, face, shoulder and neck, chest, abdomen, back, thigh and hip, legs and feet will be contracted and relaxed in sequence. The contraction time is 5 seconds (s), and the relaxation time is 10s.
OTHER	Yoga	The participants will receive yoga for 30 minutes/session, 3 sessions/week for 8 weeks. The session will begin with 5 minutes for warming up. Twenty minutes of wind relieving position (pavanmuktasana), corpse position (savasana), standing side stretch position, seated forward bend (paschimothanasana), cobra position (bhujangasana), and chair position (utkatasana). Five minutes of cooling down.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-11-02
• Primary completion: 2025-06-15
• Completion: 2025-06-30
• First posted: 2024-10-30
• Last updated: 2025-07-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt