Yoga Efficacy and Bioactive Materials in the Blood of Korean Elderly

Wonryeon Cho

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Healthy Elderly; Yoga

Treatments: Behavioral: Participation in the elderly yoga program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03691129

WonkwangU

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is conducted to verify the relationships between yoga efficacy and bioactive materials in the blood of Korean elderly.

Full description

Glycoproteomics approach will be applied to verify the relationships between yoga efficacy and bioactive materials in the blood of Korean elderly.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The elderly group participant over 60 years old.
• The young group participant over 20 to 57 years old.
• Individual who can read and understand Korean.
• Participant is willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Participant who was diagnosed with cancer in the last five years.
• In case of participants leaving the yoga program after the primary blood collecting, they will be excluded from the secondary blood collecting.
• Individuals who are judged inappropriate for the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Yoga participant groups

Experimental group

Description:

Yoga participant groups will practice elderly yoga for four months. We will collect their blood before and after their participation in the elderly yoga program. There will be two subgroups which are Advanced group and Beginner group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Participation in the elderly yoga program

Non-Yoga participant groups

No Intervention group

Description:

Non-Yoga participant groups will not practice yoga for four months and will be used as the control. We will collect their blood before and after the elderly yoga program. There will be two subgroups which are Elderly group and Young group.