Efficacy of Shitali Respiratory Rehabilitation Program in Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Treatments: Behavioral: shitali pranayama respiratory rehabilitation training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06715228

IRB00014233-15

Details and patient eligibility

About

obstructive sleep apnea has a negative impact on blood pressure of patients, sleeping quality, and respiration

Full description

in this study, patients (n=40) with obstructive sleep apnea will participate in this study to be divided in to group I and group II with an equal number of patients (n = 20 for the group). Group I will administer six cycles of 5-min shitali respiratory pranayama exercise rehabilitation training (the rehabilitation will be repeated or applied at morning, afternoon, and also at evening) for 12 week as a daily performance, the other group, Group II, will act as control group.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 35 to 55 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• non-obese patients
• obstructive sleep apnea (mild and moderate form)

Exclusion criteria

• cardiac patients metabolic diseases kidney diseases

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 I

Experimental group

Description:

in this group, patients (n=20) with obstructive sleep apnea will participate and will administer six cycles of 5-min shitali respiratory pranayama exercise rehabilitation training (the rehabilitation will be repeated or applied at morning, afternoon, and also at evening) for 12 week as a daily performance,

Treatment:

Behavioral: shitali pranayama respiratory rehabilitation training

Group II

No Intervention group

Description:

in this group, patients (n=20) with obstructive sleep apnea will participate and will act as control group. In this group, no intervention will be applied