Effect of Yoga on Psychological Aspect and Quality of Life in Premenstrual Syndrome

NCT ID: NCT06665347

Last Updated: 2025-07-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 46 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-11-02
• Study Completion Date: 2025-06-30

Brief Summary

This study will be carried out to evaluate the effect of yoga on psychological aspect and quality of life in premenstrual syndrome.

Detailed Description

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is characterized by a collection of physical, emotional, psychological, and behavioral symptoms that appear in a cyclic and recurring pattern during the late luteal phase of the menstrual cycle and alleviate within two to four days of menstruation.

Premenstrual Syndrome has a negative impact on young girls' lives, which can lead to reduced work efficiency and quality of work, increased accidents and lack of school attendance. Therefore, there is a need to develop treatment protocols for coping with premenstrual symptoms.

Yoga denotes union and integration and improves biopsychosocial and spiritual wellness. In other words, yoga is a form of mind-body health that combines physical activity with inner-directed mindfulness to achieve self-consciousness through breathing and meditation.

So, this study will be conducted to contribute and add new information that may help the field of physical therapy. It will provide an evidence base for the efficacy of yoga on management of psychological aspect and quality of life in premenstrual syndrome, owing to its low cost, and ease use that may lead to improvement of symptoms.

Conditions

Premenstrual Syndrome

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Progressive muscle relaxation group

All participants in this group will receive progressive muscle relaxation for 8 weeks

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Progressive muscle relaxation

Intervention Type: OTHER

The participants will receive progressive muscle relaxation for 8 weeks. The muscles of the hand, arm, face, shoulder and neck, chest, abdomen, back, thigh and hip, legs and feet will be contracted and relaxed in sequence. The contraction time is 5 seconds (s), and the relaxation time is 10s.

Progressive muscle relaxation and Yoga group

All participants in this group will receive the same progressive muscle relaxation plus yoga for 8 weeks.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Progressive muscle relaxation

Intervention Type: OTHER

The participants will receive progressive muscle relaxation for 8 weeks. The muscles of the hand, arm, face, shoulder and neck, chest, abdomen, back, thigh and hip, legs and feet will be contracted and relaxed in sequence. The contraction time is 5 seconds (s), and the relaxation time is 10s.

Yoga

Intervention Type: OTHER

The participants will receive yoga for 30 minutes/session, 3 sessions/week for 8 weeks. The session will begin with 5 minutes for warming up. Twenty minutes of wind relieving position (pavanmuktasana), corpse position (savasana), standing side stretch position, seated forward bend (paschimothanasana), cobra position (bhujangasana), and chair position (utkatasana). Five minutes of cooling down.

Interventions

Progressive muscle relaxation

The participants will receive progressive muscle relaxation for 8 weeks. The muscles of the hand, arm, face, shoulder and neck, chest, abdomen, back, thigh and hip, legs and feet will be contracted and relaxed in sequence. The contraction time is 5 seconds (s), and the relaxation time is 10s.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Yoga

The participants will receive yoga for 30 minutes/session, 3 sessions/week for 8 weeks. The session will begin with 5 minutes for warming up. Twenty minutes of wind relieving position (pavanmuktasana), corpse position (savasana), standing side stretch position, seated forward bend (paschimothanasana), cobra position (bhujangasana), and chair position (utkatasana). Five minutes of cooling down.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Their ages will be ranged from 18 to 25 years old.
• Their body mass index (BMI) will be less than 30 kg/m².
• They will be virgin.
• They will have regular menstrual cycles.
• They will suffer from Premenstrual syndrome based on daily record of severity of problems.
• All women will be conscious and free from any medical disease.

Exclusion Criteria

• Women with the following criteria should be excluded from this study:
• Women with endocrine disturbance.
• Endometriosis.
• Pelvic inflammatory disease.
• Any pelvic pathology conditions.
• Women had hysterectomy or ovariectomy.
• Women use medications as contraceptive pills, pain relief drugs and antidepressant drugs.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 25 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Cairo University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Arwa Mohamed Abd El-Wahab

Principal investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Hossam Al Din Kamel, Professor

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Al-Azhar University

khadyga Abdul Aziz, Professor

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Cairo University

Locations

Arwa mohamed Abd El-Wahab

Cairo, , Egypt

Countries

Egypt

Other Identifiers

P.T.REC/012/004757

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id