Does Conscious Connected Breathwork Reduce Symptoms of Anxiety?

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Anxiety
• Interventions: Behavioral: Conscious Connected Breathwork; Other: Placebo waitlist

• Registration Number: NCT06374810
• Lead Sponsor: Richard Blake

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test whether conscious connected breathwork reduces symptoms of anxiety in people with mild to severe anxiety symptoms, as measured by the Zung Self Rating Anxiety Scale.

The main questions aims to answer:

1. Does conscious connected breathwork reduce symptoms of anxiety?

2. Does an increased frequency of self-practice lead to even greater reductions of anxiety symptoms.

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Participants will participate in 1, 90 minute breath workshop per week for 6 weeks. These sessions will be held on Zoom by 2 facilitators. Participants will also be given a 10 minute recording of a guided conscious connected breathwork session that they will be encouraged to complete daily.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-09-21
• Primary Completion: 2023-12-20
• Study Completion: 2023-12-20
• Status Verified: 2024-04
• Study First Submitted: 2024-04-16
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-04-16
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-04-18
• Study First Posted: 2024-04-19
• Last Update Posted: 2024-04-22

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 108

Inclusion Criteria

• Scores of 35 or higher on the Zung self-rating anxiety scale

Exclusion Criteria

• anyone having completed more than 4 sessions of Conscious Connected Breathwork
• Anyone who has recently (within 1 year) started anti-depressant medication or psychotherapy
• Anyone with a history of panic disorder, psychosis, angina, pregnant, seizure disorder, glaucoma

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Breathwork Group	Conscious Connected Breathwork	This group participated in 6 weeks of 90-minute Conscious Connected Breathwork groups conducted via Zoom. Participants attended 1 workshop per week
Waitlist control group	Placebo waitlist	This group were told the 1st cohort of the study was full and they would be permitted to join cohort 2 in 6 weeks time. At the end of this waitlist period participants were invited to join the second cohort so long as they still met the inclusion criteria.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Changes in anxiety symptoms	6 - 8 weeks between taking the anxiety scale either before and after the breathwork program or remaining on the wait list	Scores on the Zung Self Rating Anxiety Scale - Scores range from a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 80. A higher score indicates more severe symptoms of anxiety than a lower score.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

CIIS; 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States