Yoga/Pranayama for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (YOGAPTSD)

Universität Duisburg-Essen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT); Behavioral: Pranayama assisted trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03748121

17-7703-BO

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to investigate the effect of a pranayama focused yoga intervention on post-traumatic symptom severity in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder undergoing standard psychotherapy/ trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (TF-CBT). Therefore, short pranayama sessions of 5-10 minutes will be provided to the patients directly at the begin of each of standard TF-CBT unit, while the control group will get standard TF-CBT alone. It should further be investigated, whether pranayama can enhance the affective tolerance of patients with post-traumatic stress disorder towards the used exposure techniques of TF-CBT.

Enrollment: 74 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosed PTSD according to ICD-10
• PCL-5 Score of at least 33 points
• Undergoing outpatient CBT
• Physical and mental ability to perform Pranayama

Exclusion criteria

• Severe comorbid mental or somatic disease that did not allow the patient to perform Pranayama
• Pregnancy
• Regular practice of Yoga or Pilates in the last 12 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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74 participants in 2 patient groups

Pranayama assisted Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

Experimental group

Description:

To prepare patients for the TF-CBT, they received 5-10 minutes of pranayama at the begin of each of the 10 TF-CBT units.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Pranayama assisted trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients wait for 10 TF-CBT units and then are offered to learn pranayama.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)