Breathing Techniques and Meditation for Health Care Workers During COVID-19 Pandemic

N/AActive Not RecruitingNCT04482647

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center100 enrolled

Overview

This phase I trial investigates breathing techniques and meditation for health care workers during COVID-19 pandemic. Breathing techniques and medication may help manage stress and improve lung health. The goal of this trial is to learn if breathing techniques and meditation may help to reduce stress and improve lung health in health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: I. To demonstrate the feasibility of a short pranayama or breathing techniques and meditation during Covid-19 pandemic. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine the adherence to the practice assessed as at least 50% of participants implement the intervention for 3 or more times in a week by the end of week 1/day 7 (+ 3 days). II. To determine the change in resilience, perceived stress and psychological impact from day 0 today 28 as measured by the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS4), and COVID-19 Stress among health care workers questionnaire. III. To determine the changes in breath holding time measured weekly for 4 weeks. IV. To determine the differences in breath holding time between those who are adherent and those who are not adherent to the practice. OUTLINE: Patients view an instructional video on breathing techniques and meditation. Patients then perform breathing techniques over 3 minutes and meditation over 2 minutes twice daily (BID) for 28 days.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

100

Conditions

COVID-19 Infection

Interventions

Media InterventionOTHER

View instructional video

Meditation TherapyPROCEDURE

Perform meditation

Quality-of-Life AssessmentOTHER

Ancillary studies

Questionnaire Administration

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMax age: 70 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Participants must be able to read and understand English * Must be employed at MD Anderson Cancer Center Exclusion Criteria: * Epilepsy * Brain tumor * Brain aneurysm * Pregnant or trying to get pregnant * Brain bleeding in the past 1 year * Recent abdominal surgery and not cleared to exercise

Locations (1)

M D Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Number of Participants Recruited to the Study (Feasibility)

To demonstrate the feasibility of a short pranayama or breathing techniques and meditation during Covid-19 pandemic. Feasibility will be defined as recruitment of 50 participants to the study within 2 months.

Time frame: Within 2 months

Number of Participants Who Perceived the Intervention as Useful

Defined as more than 50% of participants perceive the intervention as useful. Meditation perception questions were asked such as usefulness, feeling at peace, hopeful, or relaxed, and responses were recorded as strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, and strongly disagree at weeks 1 and 4.

Time frame: Week 1 and Week 4

Secondary Outcomes

Change in Resilience

Measured by the Brief Resilient Coping Scale among health care workers questionnaire.

Time frame: 4 weeks

Perceive Stress and Psychological Impact

Measured by the Perceived Stress Scale and COVID-19 Stress among health care workers questionnaire.

Time frame: 4 weeks

Breath Holding Time

Will determine the differences in breath holding time between those who are adherent and those who are not adherent to the practice.

Time frame: 4 weeks

Adherence to the Practice

Will determine the adherence to the practice assessed as at least 50% of participants implement the intervention for 3 or more times in a week by the end of week 1/day 7 (+ 3 days).

Time frame: 4 weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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