Feasibility of a Yoga Program for Veterans With PTSD

Marquette University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

Treatments: Other: Yoga Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05177757

HR- 3973

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is designed to examine the feasibility of a 12-week yoga program on physiological and psychological health and its neurobiological mechanisms in N=15 veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The investigators will be examining specific parameters of health and mechanisms before and after the yoga program.

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• U.S. Military Veteran
• 18 years of age or older
• Diagnosis of PTSD as assessed by a score of >30 on the PTSD-Checklist Version 5 (PCL-5)
• Willing and able to attend testing and yoga sessions at the Athletic and Human Research Performance Center (AHPRC) on the campus of Marquette University
• Clear to participate in physical activity based on the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PARQ+)

Exclusion criteria

• Currently pregnant or trying to become pregnant
• Positive score to one or more items on the PAR-Q+ without physician approval
• Already established regular use of yoga (i.e., more than one day per week)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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14 participants in 1 patient group

Yoga Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The yoga exercise program will be conducted at the Marquette campus and will consist of one session per week for 12 weeks. The duration of each session will be approximately one hour. The program the investigators will use is the Mindful Resilience for Trauma Recovery Program (https://www.veteransyogaproject.org/), an evidence-informed practice adapted for veterans with PTSD based on clinical and neuroscientific knowledge. This program is a 12-week protocol developed by a licensed clinical psychologist and is publicly available. All yoga sessions will be standardized based on the resilience program guidelines.

Treatment:

Other: Yoga Intervention