Effect of Applying Ujjayi Pranayama on Cortisol in Lupus Patients

Badr University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Treatments: Behavioral: Ujjayi pranayama

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05748899

P.T.REC/012/004288

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Full 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

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 35 to 55 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 40 lupus women

Exclusion criteria

• lupus co-morbidities
• illiteracy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

group number 1

Experimental group

Description:

Group number 1 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).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Ujjayi pranayama

group number 2

No Intervention group

Description:

The group number 2 will not receive pranayama training, so it serves as control lupus group