Yoga for COVID-19 asymptomatic patients

Phase 1

Completed

• Conditions: Coronavirus as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere,

• Registration Number: CTRI/2020/10/028566
• Lead Sponsor: Pragya Jain Shrimal

Brief Summary

COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by recentlydiscovered novel coronavirus (World Health Organization, 2020a). Coronavirusesare a large family of viruses which may cause illness in animals or humans. Inhumans, several coronaviruses are known to cause respiratory infections rangingfrom the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East RespiratorySyndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) (National Health Mission, 2020). The mostrecently discovered coronavirus causes coronavirus disease COVID-19 (World Health Organization, 2020).

As per WHO, COVID-19 hasaffected 215 countries or territories or areas. Till 16th July2020, there have been infected over 12,015,193 people of COVID-19, including549,247 deaths reported Globally (World Health Organization, 2020c). InIndia, COVID-19 has been infected 974,737 peoplein which **331146**activecases, **612814** recovery  andhas claimed **24915** deaths,as per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government ofIndia (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 2020).

Yoga as an add-on therapy maysupport patients of COVID-19 by improving the quality of standardcare (Tillu et al., 2020).The Health advisory is given by The Ministry ofAyurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homoeopathy (AYUSH)against coronavirus infection included Practice of  Yogasana, Pranayamaand meditation for at least 30 minutes every day for immunity-boostingguidelines to supplement the fight against COVID-19 (Ayush Ministry,2020). The Harvard Medical School in the US has recommended yoga,meditation and controlled breathing to address anxiety issues related to thenovel coronavirus (Sharp, 2020). Yoga is an add‑on benefits of stressmanagement, as well as prevention and management of chronic non communicablediseases and communicable diseases. Based on the available scientific evidenceson yoga in improving respiratory and immune functions. (Nagarathna et al.,2020). Certain meditation, yoga asana (postures), and pranayama (breathing)practices may possibly be effective adjunctive means of treating and/orpreventing SARS-CoV-2 infection (Bushell et al., 2020).                                                                 Hence there is a requirement of such a study whichprovides integrated yoga based intervention in the scenario of COVID-19pandemic. So this will be the study which is going to see the effect of short termyogic intervention on COVID-19 asymptomaticpatients.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-02-11
• Study Completion: 2021-01-31
• Last Update Posted: 2021-04-19

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• 1. Only COVID-19 positives confirmed by RT-PCR method to be recruited.
• 3. Inclusive of people under Quarantine under Government setup.
• 4. Inclusion of asymptomatic patients.

Exclusion Criteria

• 1. Unwilling for participation.
• 2. Physical and mental disability.
• 3. Medical restriction for physical movement.
• 4. History of recent surgery.
• 5. Pregnant females.
• 6. Severe Comorbid conditions (uncontrolled Diabetes, Uncontrolled Hypertension and Cardiac diseases, COPD etc.).

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Oxygen Saturation, Heart Rate, Respiratory Rate and Blood pressure	Day 1 and Day 7

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Stress, COVID-19 Peritraumatic Distress and Mindfulness	Day 1 and Day 7

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

MTH, Hospital; 🇮🇳 Indore, MADHYA PRADESH, India

MTH, Hospital

🇮🇳Indore, MADHYA PRADESH, India

Pragya Jain Shrimal

Principal investigator

9425187845

pragyajain11@gmail.com