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Can practice of yoga enhance the effect of psychotherapy for psychotic symptoms?

Yoga therapy as an add-on to metacognitive therapy for psychoses for patients with schizophrenia â?? a randomized controlled trial

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
CTRI
Registry ID
CTRI/2020/02/023145
Enrollment
100
Registered
2020-02-06
Start date
Unknown
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2021-11-24

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Health Condition 1: F200- Paranoid schizophrenia

Interventions

Intervention1: Yoga plus Metacognitive therapy with treatment as usual: Patients will undergo yoga therapy and metacognitive therapy (twelve session of Yoga and eight to ten sessions of metacognitive

Sponsors

Department of Science and Technology
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. A score of 4 or more on â??Positive scaleâ?? of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) out of which 3 must be on â??Delusionâ?? of the Positive scale 2. A score of 4 or more on the â??Negative scaleâ?? of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) 3. Educated, at least, upto 8th std. 4. Cooperative for assessment and participation in the study

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. ECT in current admission or past 3 months

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Effect of adding yoga to metacognitive therapy and routine (standard therapy) on psychopathology, and functioning.Timepoint: Baseline, 8 weeks (after completion of therapy), 24 weeks from the baseline assessment (follow-up)

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Perceived changes by the caregivers in the functionality and cognition of the patientsTimepoint: Baseline, 8 weeks (after completion of therapy), 24 weeks from the baseline assessment (follow-up)

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactDevvarta Kumar

National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore

devvarta.k@nimhans.ac.in

Outcome results

None listed

Source: CTRI (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026