Ayurveda Self-Management for Flu Like Symptoms During the Covid-19 Outbreak

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Flu Like Illness; Flu Like Symptom
• Interventions: Other: Individualised Ayurveda

• Registration Number: NCT04345549
• Lead Sponsor: Aarogyam UK

Brief Summary

From the end of January 2020, Coronavirus disease 2019 began to spread in United Kingdom (UK). During the same time, seasonal flu continued to circulate across the UK. With similar course of management at early stages, flu like symptoms were self-isolated to prevent the spread and further complications of infection. Present study aimed to evaluate the effect of self-managed Ayurveda on flu like symptoms in people who self-isolated at home for 7-days in March 2020 during the Covid-19 outbreak in UK.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-02-26
• Primary Completion: 2020-03-30
• Study Completion: 2020-03-30
• Status Verified: 2020-04
• Study First Submitted: 2020-04-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-04-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-04-10
• Study First Posted: 2020-04-14
• Last Update Posted: 2020-04-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 18

Inclusion Criteria

• Flu like symptoms present at least one respiratory symptom (e.g. cough, nasal obstruction, sore throat) and at least one constitutional symptom other than fever (e.g. fatigue, headache, myalgias) of less than 48-hour duration
• Willing to consent and follow up

Exclusion Criteria

• Pregnant/lactating
• Participants with chronic pulmonary diseases or critical condition or already developed severe respiratory distress
• Clinically malignancies, systemic infection, other medical or psychiatric condition which places the subject at unacceptable risk to participate in the study - Known hypersensitivity to any ayurveda herbal substances

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Ayurveda	Individualised Ayurveda	All the participants were advised to self-isolate for 7-days and maintain hygiene and self-care as per recommended guidelines. Along with that, participants were advised to constitution based Ayurveda treatment using herbs, life style and yoga.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Time to achieve afebrile	From Baseline to 3rd and 7th-days of intervention	Time to bring down a fever (oral temperature \< 37.2˚C)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Severity of influenza symptom score	Twice daily from Day 1 to Day 7	Symptoms diary card completed twice daily from Day 0 to Day 7

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Aarogyam; 🇬🇧 Leicester, United Kingdom