Remote Yoga Nidra for Anxiety and Sleep

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Insomnia Due to Anxiety and Fear
• Interventions: Behavioral: Yoga Nidra

• Registration Number: NCT04571593
• Lead Sponsor: National University of Natural Medicine

Brief Summary

The goal of this application is to collect survey data indicating the effects of a digital Yoga Nidra practice on anxiety and sleep during COVID-19. We will explore effects on momentary anxiousness, as well as on sleep. Participants will be consented through REDCap during the Yoga Nidra class, then asked to complete an intake form, a sleep questionnaire (composed of questions from the Post Sleep Questionnaire (PSQ)) and a pre/post State Trait Anxiety (STAI) Index, surrounding the practice. Participants will receive an email the next morning, inquiring about their sleep (\~2 min survey), and again the following week, the morning of the Yoga Nidra class, in order to remind them about the weekly class offering and also to collect sleep data for a night that did not include pre-bed Yoga Nidra. We will additionally report feasibility measures including enrollment, retention, qualitative feedback, and challenges of using the digital platform. Using this data, we will gain valuable feasibility data for implementation of this type of mind-body practice using digital platforms. We will also gain important data on the effects of this practice on anxiety and sleep.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-04-15
• Primary Completion: 2020-08-05
• Study Completion: 2020-09-14
• Study First Submitted: 2020-09-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-09-25
• Study First Posted: 2020-10-01
• Status Verified: 2023-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-11-16
• Last Update Posted: 2023-11-18

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 74

Inclusion Criteria

• Adults
• Can understand a recording in English while resting comfortably

Exclusion Criteria

NA

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Digital Yoga Nidra	Yoga Nidra	Participants will voluntarily complete a \~30-minute remote Yoga Nidra practice, synchronously (through Zoom Wednesdays at 10 pm ET) or asynchronously (through YouTube, using the Zoom recording, any time they like). They may voluntarily repeat this practice as often as they like. Recordings are updated weekly, to reflect the ongoing Zoom class. Yoga Nidra scripts from Satyananda Saraswati's "Yoga Nidra" book (1976) are used for this class.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in Sleep Quality	Baseline (pre-intervention), 1 day (morning after intervention), and 2-6 days later (survey sent each Tuesday, to capture a night without Yoga Nidra)	Post Sleep Questionnaire (PSQ): six questions
Change in Momentary Anxiety	Pre-intervention and immediately after the intervention	State Trait Anxiety (STAI-6) Short Form (scale 20 to 80, with higher scores indicating higher momentary anxiety)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Incidence of Intervention-Emergent Challenges as assessed by a Feedback Survey	Post-intervention (survey sent at 16 weeks)	Qualitative Feedback Survey (developed in-house)
Satisfaction as assessed by a Feedback Survey	Post-intervention (survey sent at 16-weeks)	Qualitative Feedback Survey (developed in-house)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

National University of Natural Medicine, Helfgott Research Institute; 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States