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CompletedNCT04316455Updated Mar 20, 2020

Self-managed Integrative Yoga Therapy for Older Adults Living With Chronic Pain

An interventional study of Integrative Yoga Therapy in Chronic Pain, sponsored by Aarogyam UK. Completed at 1 site in United Kingdom. Open to participants aged 60 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-03-20.

Sponsored by Aarogyam UK · Not applicable, Interventional, and Supportive care

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 4 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Oct 2019, registered Mar 2020).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
25
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
60 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Chronic pain self-management skills can help patients improve daily functioning and quality of life. The goal of this study is to evaluate chronic pain self-managed Integrative Yoga Therapy intervention delivered in a sample of 25 older adults recruited from community site in Leicester.

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Conditions studied

  • Chronic Pain

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In context

Chronic Pain

2,930 studies on the registry are indexed under Chronic Pain; 701 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 25 is below the median of 60 across 2,161 interventional studies indexed under Chronic Pain.

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Lead sponsor

Aarogyam UK is the lead sponsor of 19 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
60 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • Willing to provide informed consent
  • Age >= 60 years
  • Ambulatory
  • Community-living
  • Self-reported chronic musculoskeletal pain > 3 months having pain made it difficult to do usual activities
  • Ability to attend sessions one in a week for 6-weeks

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Serious illness or hospitalisation in last 3-month
  • Planned surgery in next six months
  • Significant cognitive impairment
  • Other severe physical or psychiatric disorder
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Supportive care
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
25 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Integrative Yoga Therapy

    Participants engaging in a 6-week chronic pain self-management program. Intervention: Integrative Yoga Therapy

    Other: Integrative Yoga Therapy

Interventions

  • OtherIntegrative Yoga Therapy

    Participants having an hour in-person weekly session with qualified yoga therapist for 6-weeks. At each session, the personalised yoga practices including straightening and relaxing posture of yoga, yoga breathing, Combinations of sound and imagery yoga practices were given and asked to continue practice at home during the week.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Pain severity and interference: Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) questionnaire

    Pain severity and interference were evaluated by using the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) questionnaire.

    Time frame: From baseline to 6-week post intervention

Secondary outcomes

  1. Participant Global Impression of Change

    Participant Global Impression of Change included 2 item the change from baseline

    Time frame: From baseline to 6-week post intervention

  2. Participant satisfaction: Likert-scale questions

    Likert-scale questions score between 1-5 for participant satisfaction with the program (Strongly Agree=1 to Strongly Disagree=5)

    Time frame: From baseline to 6-week post intervention

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Study locations

1 site
  • Karyalaya
    Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Mar 20, 2020, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04316455
Lead sponsor
Aarogyam UK
Collaborators
Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (UK), Leicester Ageing Together
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Mar 20, 2020
Start date
Oct 28, 2019
Primary completion
Feb 28, 2020
Completion
Mar 7, 2020
Last update
Mar 20, 2020

Study contacts

Neha Sharma, PhD
principal investigator · Aarogyam UK
Jaydeep Joshi, BAMS
study director · Aarogyam UK
Usha Solanki
study chair · Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (UK)
Bharti Mistry
study chair · Leicester Ageing Together UK

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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