Effect of Applying Ujjayi Pranayama on Cortisol in Lupus Patients

Badr University40 enrolled

Overview

stress vulnerability is very common in lupus patients, specifically women, hence the rates of depression , insomnia, easy fatigue perception, anxiety are high in those women. pranayama is a yogic intervention that may treat the above problems

lupus patients, specifically 40 women, will divided to group number 1 and group number 2. the women in every group will be 20 women. Group number 1 will receive home-based ujjayi pranayama for six weeks (fifteen minutes in the morning and 15 min in the evening, this training will be online supervised). The group number 2 will not receive Ujjayi pranayama, so it serves as control lupus group

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Interventions

Ujjayi pranayamaBEHAVIORAL

this group will receive home-based daily ujjayi pranayama for six weeks (fifteen minutes in the morning and 15 min in the evening, this training will be online supervised).

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 35 YearsMax age: 55 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * 40 lupus women Exclusion Criteria: * lupus co-morbidities * illiteracy

Locations (1)

Badr University

Cairo, Egypt

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