Using Yogic Breathing to Reduce Stress in Anesthesia Personnel As Measured by Hair Cortisol

NCT ID: NCT04858815

Last Updated: 2024-10-24

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 57 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-04-26
• Study Completion Date: 2022-07-07

Brief Summary

Mind body exercises have long been used as a way for individuals to reduce stress and improve well-being. Recent studies indicate that yogic breathing (YB, also known as pranayama) could potentially impact both the mind and body by engaging both the physiological and neural elements and can thus be a specific tool that can be utilized by healthcare workers to combat burnout and decrease perceived levels of stress. Our aim is to understand and measure both subjectively and objectively the effects of long-term yogic breathing on stress levels in anesthesia personnel. This will be a single arm longitudinal trial designed to evaluate the feasibility and estimate the efficacy of implementing a yogic breathing program for stress reduction among anesthesiology practitioners at one academic medical center. The primary aim of the trial is to estimate the correlation between participant stress with average duration of yogic breathing over time. Secondarily the feasibility of implementing yogic breathing practices among anesthesiology practitioners will be evaluated. Feasibility measures will include recruitment rates, retention at 1year follow-up, and adherence to the yogic breathing program at 12 months.

Conditions

Stress; Burnout, Professional

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Administration of yogic breathing program

This will be a single arm longitudinal trial designed to evaluate the feasibility and estimate the efficacy of implementing a self-administered yogic breathing program for stress reduction among anesthesiology practitioners at one academic medical center.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

yogic breathing

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

participation in yogic breathing

Interventions

yogic breathing

participation in yogic breathing

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• All clinical members of the MUSC anesthesia department (Attending physicians, resident physicians, and CRNAs)

Exclusion Criteria

• Pregnancy (or anticipated pregnancy)
• chronic steroid use
• inadequate hair length for testing (less than 3cm at the back of the head)
• residents with anticipated graduation within the next one year.

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

Sponsors

Medical University of South Carolina

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Grayce Davis, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Medical University of South Carolina

Locations

Medical University of South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

Pro00105235

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id