Self-managed Integrative Yoga Therapy for Older Adults Living With Chronic Pain

Impact of Self-managed Integrative Yoga Therapy for Older Adults Living With Chronic Pain

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04316455

Enrollment

Registered

2020-03-20

Start date

2019-10-28

Completion date

2020-03-07

Last updated

2020-03-20

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Conditions

Chronic Pain

Brief summary

Chronic pain self-management skills can help patients improve daily functioning and quality of life. The goal of this study is to evaluate chronic pain self-managed Integrative Yoga Therapy intervention delivered in a sample of 25 older adults recruited from community site in Leicester.

Interventions

OTHERIntegrative Yoga Therapy

Participants having an hour in-person weekly session with qualified yoga therapist for 6-weeks. At each session, the personalised yoga practices including straightening and relaxing posture of yoga, yoga breathing, Combinations of sound and imagery yoga practices were given and asked to continue practice at home during the week.

Study design

Allocation

Intervention model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

60 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Willing to provide informed consent * Age \>= 60 years * Ambulatory * Community-living * Self-reported chronic musculoskeletal pain \> 3 months having pain made it difficult to do usual activities * Ability to attend sessions one in a week for 6-weeks

Exclusion criteria

* Serious illness or hospitalisation in last 3-month * Planned surgery in next six months * Significant cognitive impairment * Other severe physical or psychiatric disorder

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Pain severity and interference: Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) questionnaire	From baseline to 6-week post intervention	Pain severity and interference were evaluated by using the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) questionnaire.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Participant Global Impression of Change	From baseline to 6-week post intervention	Participant Global Impression of Change included 2 item the change from baseline
Participant satisfaction: Likert-scale questions	From baseline to 6-week post intervention	Likert-scale questions score between 1-5 for participant satisfaction with the program (Strongly Agree=1 to Strongly Disagree=5)

Countries

United Kingdom

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026