Affect, Anxiety, Cognition
Conditions
Brief summary
The goal of this research is to determine what components of an integrated yoga practice that influence anxiety, cognition, and affect among highly anxious college females. Participants will go through four sessions and will experience all parts of a yoga practice.
Detailed description
The goal of this research is to determine what components of an integrated yoga practice that influence anxiety, cognition, and affect. Anxiety disorders are the most common class of mental disorders, affecting about 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. (Kessler et al., 2005). Additionally, females are significantly more likely than males to develop an anxiety disorder throughout the lifespan (Bruce et al., 2005). Yoga in general has been shown to have a substantial number of benefits on mental health and cognition. However, there is little to no research on what parts of yoga are working to achieve positive effects. A total of 60 highly anxious female college students will experience all the following conditions: integrated yoga (a combination of postures, breathwork, and meditation), yoga postures only, breathwork/meditation only, watching a yoga documentary. Before and after each session, we will assess the effects of all conditions on anxiety, cognition, and affect.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALIntegrated Yoga
Participants will complete breathwork, meditation, and yoga postures.
BEHAVIORALYoga Postures
Participants will complete yoga postures.
BEHAVIORALBreathwork/Meditation
Participants will complete breathwork and meditation.
BEHAVIORALDocumentary
Participants will watch a yoga documentary.
Sponsors
University of Illinois at Chicago
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
FACTORIAL
Primary purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Masking description
The outcome assessor is masked to the condition that the participant will participate in.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
17 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* college student * study over 14 hours * highly anxious * must identify as a female
Exclusion criteria
* is not a college student * does not study 14 hours or more * is not highly anxious * identifies as a male * is under the age of 17
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Anxiety | Immediately before and immediately after each of four study sessions, completed over either 2 or 4 weeks. | State Anxiety will be measured by the state portion of the State-Trait Anxiety Index. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cognition - Inhibition | Immediately before and immediately after each of four study sessions, completed over either 2 or 4 weeks. | Inhibition will be measured by the Flanker Task. |
| Affect | Immediately before and immediately after each of four study sessions, completed over either 2 or 4 weeks. | Affect will be measured by the Activation Deactivation Adjective Checklist. |
| Cognition - Working Memory | Immediately before and immediately after each of four study sessions, completed over either 2 or 4 weeks. | Working memory will be measured by the Digit Symbol Substitution Test. |
Countries
United States
Contacts
STUDY_CHAIREduardo E Bustmante, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago
Outcome results
None listed