An interventional study of Integrated Yoga and Yoga Postures in Anxiety, Cognition and Affect, sponsored by University of Illinois at Chicago. Enrolling by invitation at 2 sites in United States. Open to female participants aged 17 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-14.
Sponsored by University of Illinois at Chicago · Not applicable, Interventional, and Basic science
The goal of this research is to determine what components of an integrated yoga practice that influence anxiety, cognition, and affect among highly anxious college females. Participants will go through four sessions and will experience all parts of a yoga practice.
The goal of this research is to determine what components of an integrated yoga practice that influence anxiety, cognition, and affect. Anxiety disorders are the most common class of mental disorders, affecting about 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. (Kessler et al., 2005). Additionally, females are significantly more likely than males to develop an anxiety disorder throughout the lifespan (Bruce et al., 2005). Yoga in general has been shown to have a substantial number of benefits on mental health and cognition. However, there is little to no research on what parts of yoga are working to achieve positive effects. A total of 60 highly anxious female college students will experience all the following conditions: integrated yoga (a combination of postures, breathwork, and meditation), yoga postures only, breathwork/meditation only, watching a yoga documentary. Before and after each session, we will assess the effects of all conditions on anxiety, cognition, and affect.
7,207 studies on the registry are indexed under Anxiety Disorders; 1,682 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 60 is below the median of 80 across 6,062 interventional studies indexed under Anxiety Disorders.
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Of its 32 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 19 (59%) have results posted.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Participants will do a session of integrated yoga.
Behavioral: Integrated Yoga
Participants will do a session of only yoga postures.
Behavioral: Yoga Postures
Participants will do a session of guided breathwork and meditation
Behavioral: Breathwork/Meditation
Participants will watch a documentary.
Behavioral: Documentary
Participants will complete breathwork, meditation, and yoga postures.
Participants will complete yoga postures.
Participants will complete breathwork and meditation.
Participants will watch a yoga documentary.
Anxiety
State Anxiety will be measured by the state portion of the State-Trait Anxiety Index.
Time frame: Immediately before and immediately after each of four study sessions, completed over either 2 or 4 weeks.
Cognition - Inhibition
Inhibition will be measured by the Flanker Task.
Time frame: Immediately before and immediately after each of four study sessions, completed over either 2 or 4 weeks.
Affect
Affect will be measured by the Activation Deactivation Adjective Checklist.
Time frame: Immediately before and immediately after each of four study sessions, completed over either 2 or 4 weeks.
Cognition - Working Memory
Working memory will be measured by the Digit Symbol Substitution Test.
Time frame: Immediately before and immediately after each of four study sessions, completed over either 2 or 4 weeks.
Plan to share: No
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Started May 2025 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Nov 2026, 18 months after the start.
Of 3,841 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Anxiety Disorders, half reached primary completion within 12 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 5 and three quarters within 28. This study's planned 18 months is above that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 3,943 studies reached it within 12 months; a quarter within 5 and three quarters within 28.
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