Does Conscious Connected Breathwork Reduce Symptoms of Anxiety?

Richard Blake

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Conscious Connected Breathwork; Other: Placebo waitlist

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06374810

CCB1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to test whether conscious connected breathwork reduces symptoms of anxiety in people with mild to severe anxiety symptoms, as measured by the Zung Self Rating Anxiety Scale.

The main questions aims to answer:

1. Does conscious connected breathwork reduce symptoms of anxiety?
2. Does an increased frequency of self-practice lead to even greater reductions of anxiety symptoms.

there is a comparison group: Researchers will compare whether people doing the breathwork to see if [insert effects].

Participants will participate in 1, 90 minute breath workshop per week for 6 weeks. These sessions will be held on Zoom by 2 facilitators. Participants will also be given a 10 minute recording of a guided conscious connected breathwork session that they will be encouraged to complete daily.

Enrollment: 108 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Scores of 35 or higher on the Zung self-rating anxiety scale

Exclusion criteria

• anyone having completed more than 4 sessions of Conscious Connected Breathwork
• Anyone who has recently (within 1 year) started anti-depressant medication or psychotherapy
• Anyone with a history of panic disorder, psychosis, angina, pregnant, seizure disorder, glaucoma

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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108 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Breathwork Group

Experimental group

Description:

This group participated in 6 weeks of 90-minute Conscious Connected Breathwork groups conducted via Zoom. Participants attended 1 workshop per week

Treatment:

Behavioral: Conscious Connected Breathwork

Waitlist control group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

This group were told the 1st cohort of the study was full and they would be permitted to join cohort 2 in 6 weeks time. At the end of this waitlist period participants were invited to join the second cohort so long as they still met the inclusion criteria.

Treatment:

Other: Placebo waitlist