Can Antenatal yoga Lower Maternal Anxiety (CALMA)

Completed

• Conditions: Topic: Mental Health Research Network, Reproductive Health and Childbirth; Subtopic: Anxiety, Reproductive Health and Childbirth (all Subtopics); Disease: Anxiety, General Obstetrics/Midwifery; Mental and Behavioural Disorders; Anxiety disorder, unspecified

• Registration Number: ISRCTN47224604
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Manchester (UK)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-09-10
• Last Update Posted: 17 October 2016

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 72

Inclusion Criteria

1. Pregnant women between 18-40 years of age
2. With their first pregnancy lasting beyond 13 weeks, in the first 6 months of pregnancy (<26 weeks gestation)
3. Who can speak and understand English fluently

Exclusion Criteria

1. Participants will be excluded if they are on any prescription medication other than pregnancy supplements
2. Are expecting multiple pregnancies (e.g. twins)
3. Are already attending antenatal yoga classes
4. Expecting a child with any abnormality
5. Are surrogate mothers or are planning to put their child up for adoption
6. Have pre-existing diabetes or have any heart or kidney disease. After consulting yoga instructors (who allowed us to recruit from their yoga classes in the pilot study we ran), no exclusion criteria for attending antenatal yoga was stipulated

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified