NCT07023978

on General Well-being, Anxiety, and Physical Activity in Pregnant Women

Effects of Qigong on General Well-being, Anxiety, and Physical Activity in Pregnant Women

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 102 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kocaeli University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

102 pregnant women will be randomly divided into 2 groups. Participants in the control group will be given pregnancy counseling that includes only nutrition, walking (3 days a week for 30 minutes), and breathing exercises, and will be called for 1st, 2nd and 3rd month check-ups. In addition to pregnancy counseling, the Qigong group will receive 2 Qigong training sessions, one via Zoom and one face-to-face, and then the training videos of each exercise will be sent via WhatsApp. Paricipants will be asked to do the Qigong exercises at home for 30 minutes, 3 days a week for 12 weeks. These participants will be called for 1-month, 2-month and 3-month check-ups. Blood pressure and sugar measurements will be recorded at the first visit, 1st month, 2nd month and 3rd month check-ups, and patients will also be evaluated with the Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire, Pregnancy Stress Assessment Scale, Pregnancy-related Anxiety Scale, Pregnancy Exercise Self-Efficacy Questionnaire. After the recruitment period the results will be evaluated statistically.

Conditions

• Pregnancy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Some movements in the qigong study called Ba Duan Jin, which will be applied to pregnant women, will be arranged for pregnant women and explained in detail. These are very slow, movements	Ba Duan Jin Qigong

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-12-15
• Primary completion: 2025-07-30
• Completion: 2025-08-05
• First posted: 2025-06-17
• Last updated: 2025-08-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)