Remote Yoga Nidra for Anxiety and Sleep

NCT ID: NCT04571593

Last Updated: 2023-11-18

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 74 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-04-15
• Study Completion Date: 2020-09-14

Brief Summary

The goal of this application is to collect survey data indicating the effects of a digital Yoga Nidra practice on anxiety and sleep during COVID-19. We will explore effects on momentary anxiousness, as well as on sleep. Participants will be consented through REDCap during the Yoga Nidra class, then asked to complete an intake form, a sleep questionnaire (composed of questions from the Post Sleep Questionnaire (PSQ)) and a pre/post State Trait Anxiety (STAI) Index, surrounding the practice. Participants will receive an email the next morning, inquiring about their sleep (~2 min survey), and again the following week, the morning of the Yoga Nidra class, in order to remind them about the weekly class offering and also to collect sleep data for a night that did not include pre-bed Yoga Nidra. We will additionally report feasibility measures including enrollment, retention, qualitative feedback, and challenges of using the digital platform. Using this data, we will gain valuable feasibility data for implementation of this type of mind-body practice using digital platforms. We will also gain important data on the effects of this practice on anxiety and sleep.

Conditions

Insomnia Due to Anxiety and Fear

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Digital Yoga Nidra

Participants will voluntarily complete a ~30-minute remote Yoga Nidra practice, synchronously (through Zoom Wednesdays at 10 pm ET) or asynchronously (through YouTube, using the Zoom recording, any time they like).

They may voluntarily repeat this practice as often as they like. Recordings are updated weekly, to reflect the ongoing Zoom class. Yoga Nidra scripts from Satyananda Saraswati's "Yoga Nidra" book (1976) are used for this class.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Yoga Nidra

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The practice of Yoga Nidra, is a scripted and reproducible, guided meditation technique that promotes mental, emotional and physical relaxation while also facilitating the transition between waking and sleeping.

Interventions

Yoga Nidra

The practice of Yoga Nidra, is a scripted and reproducible, guided meditation technique that promotes mental, emotional and physical relaxation while also facilitating the transition between waking and sleeping.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Adults
• Can understand a recording in English while resting comfortably

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

National University of Natural Medicine

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Erica Sharpe

Research Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Erica M Sharpe, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

National University of Natural Medicine

Locations

National University of Natural Medicine, Helfgott Research Institute

Portland, Oregon, United States

Countries

United States

Provided Documents

Document Type: Study Protocol, Statistical Analysis Plan, and Informed Consent Form

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Other Identifiers

ESRB41320

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id