Effects of Yoga on Menopausal Symptoms in Women With Breast Cancer

Universität Duisburg-Essen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer; Menopause

Treatments: Other: Usual care; Behavioral: Yoga

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01908270

13-5421-BO

Details and patient eligibility

About

Women with breast cancer and breast cancer survivors are often bothered by menopausal symptoms to a special degree. Treatment options for those symptoms are currently limited as hormone replacement therapy is often prohibited. Yoga has been shown to reduce menopausal symptoms as well as symptoms associated with breast cancer. Therefore, this study aims to investigate whether a 12-week yoga intervention can reduce menopausal symptoms in women with breast cancer and breast cancer survivors.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 30 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Breast cancer (Stage I-III)
• After completion of surgical therapy
• After completion of adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy
• Score of 5 or greater on the Menopausal Rating Scale
• Physical and cognitive capacity to participate in the yoga intervention
• Willingness to participate in 10 or more of the 12 yoga interventions
• signed informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Regular yoga practice in the past 12 months
• Planned surgery in the study period
• Diagnosed and medically treated psychosis
• Hormone replacement therapy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Yoga

Experimental group

Description:

Yoga intervention 12 weeks, weekly 90-minute intervention Yoga postures, breathing, relaxation, and meditation

Treatment:

Behavioral: Yoga

Other: Usual care

Usual care

Other group

Description:

Patients continue usual care by their practitioner

Treatment:

Other: Usual care