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Effect of Yoga Therapy on Hormones, Cardiac health and psychological well-being in Male Partners of Infertile Couples

Effect of Yoga on Semen Quality, Cardiometabolic and Psycho-Neuro-Endocrine-Immune Parameters in Male Partners of Infertile Couples with Psychological Stress: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
CTRI
Registry ID
CTRI/2024/08/072037
Enrollment
102
Registered
2024-08-07
Start date
Unknown
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-11-17

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Intervention1: Yoga therapy in addition to standard care: Structured module of yoga therapy consisting of warm ups (Sukshma vyayama) and yogasanas (postures), breathing techniques (pranayama), mudhras

Sponsors

Dr Nirangjhana S
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Male partners of both primary and secondary infertile couple (former indicating a person who has never achieved pregnancy, and the latter when at least one previous pregnancy has been successfully attained) with normo/oligo/teratozoospermia on standard care with antioxidants/ vitamin supplements. 2. Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) score = 14

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. History of clinically diagnosed psychiatric disorder on medications 2. H/O recent infections (3 months) 3. H/O urogenital infections (Prostatitis, Orchitis, Epididymitis) 4. Presence of WBCs, azoospermia (no spermatozoa in the ejaculate), agglutination in semen analysis 5. Patients on hormonal therapy 6. H/O undescended testicles, testicular torsion, CBAVD (Congenital Bilateral Absence of Vas Deferens), varicocele 7. H/O erectile, ejaculatory dysfunction, spinal cord disease 8. Obesity (BMI = 30) 9. H/O hypothalamic and/or pituitary defects (hypogonadism, hypergonadism) 10. H/O Diabetes mellitus, Hypertension, thyroid disorder 11. H/O current smoking, alcohol intake, drug abuse 12. H/O lifestyle change especially eating habit in the past 3 months 13. H/O surgery, severe sprain or fracture in the past 3 months 14. H/O vertebral, disc disorders, sciatica 15. H/O yoga practice/ structured exercise practice 16. Those whose female partners have blocked fallopian tubes/ anovulation/ poor ovarian reserve/ uterine anomalies

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
To compare the effect of 8 weeks yoga intervention on semen parameters, inflammatory markers, neuroendocrine hormone levels, heart rate variability, autonomic function tests and psychological parameters in male partners of infertile couples with psychological stress, in comparison to control groupTimepoint: 1 year—

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
a) To compare semen parameters, inflammatory markers, neuroendocrine hormone levels, heart rate variability, autonomic function tests & psychological parameters in male partners of infertile couples with psychological stress, pre yoga & post yoga intervention. b) To estimate the association of serum IL-6 with semen parameters, neuroendocrine hormones (total testosterone, DHEAS, FSH, LH, prolactin, oestradiol, cortisol) & psychological parameters in Male partners of infertile couple with psychological stress. Timepoint: 1 year—

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactDr Nirangjhana S

All India Institute of Medical Sciences Patna

drtribhuwank@aiimspatna.org8084219997

Outcome results

None listed

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