Breathing Techniques and Meditation for Health Care Workers During COVID-19 Pandemic

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

100 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-06-17

Study Completion Date

2027-04-30

Brief Summary

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This phase I trial investigates breathing techniques and meditation for health care workers during COVID-19 pandemic. Breathing techniques and medication may help manage stress and improve lung health. The goal of this trial is to learn if breathing techniques and meditation may help to reduce stress and improve lung health in health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Detailed Description

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PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

I. To demonstrate the feasibility of a short pranayama or breathing techniques and meditation during Covid-19 pandemic.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine the adherence to the practice assessed as at least 50% of participants implement the intervention for 3 or more times in a week by the end of week 1/day 7 (+ 3 days).

II. To determine the change in resilience, perceived stress and psychological impact from day 0 today 28 as measured by the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS4), and COVID-19 Stress among health care workers questionnaire.

III. To determine the changes in breath holding time measured weekly for 4 weeks.

IV. To determine the differences in breath holding time between those who are adherent and those who are not adherent to the practice.

OUTLINE:

Patients view an instructional video on breathing techniques and meditation. Patients then perform breathing techniques over 3 minutes and meditation over 2 minutes twice daily (BID) for 28 days.

Conditions

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COVID-19 Infection

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Supportive Care (video, breathing techniques, meditation)

Patients view an instructional video on breathing techniques and meditation. Patients then perform breathing techniques over 3 minutes and meditation over 2 minutes BID for 28 days.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Media Intervention

Intervention Type OTHER

View instructional video

Meditation Therapy

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Perform meditation

Quality-of-Life Assessment

Intervention Type OTHER

Ancillary studies

Questionnaire Administration

Intervention Type OTHER

Ancillary studies

Yoga

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Perform breathing techniques

Interventions

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Media Intervention

View instructional video

Intervention Type OTHER

Meditation Therapy

Perform meditation

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Quality-of-Life Assessment

Ancillary studies

Intervention Type OTHER

Questionnaire Administration

Ancillary studies

Intervention Type OTHER

Yoga

Perform breathing techniques

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Other Intervention Names

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Meditation Quality of Life Assessment Yoga Therapy

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Participants must be able to read and understand English
* Must be employed at MD Anderson Cancer Center

Exclusion Criteria

* Epilepsy
* Brain tumor
* Brain aneurysm
* Pregnant or trying to get pregnant
* Brain bleeding in the past 1 year
* Recent abdominal surgery and not cleared to exercise

Maximum Eligible Age

70 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes