Breathing Techniques and Meditation for Health Care Workers During COVID-19 Pandemic
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
Texas
Houston
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:
Participants view an instructional video on breathing techniques and meditation. Participants then perform breathing techniques over 3 minutes and meditation over 2 minutes twice daily (BID) for 28 days. Participants will also be requested to maintain weekly activity logs to document their daily practice. A survey will be completed at study recruitment, before receiving the video link, and then again 1, 2, 3, and 4 weeks after starting the breathing practices.
Trial Phase Phase NA
Trial Type Supportive care
Lead Organization
M D Anderson Cancer Center
Principal Investigator
Santhosshi Narayanan
- Primary ID 2020-0483
- Secondary IDs NCI-2020-04931
- Clinicaltrials.gov ID NCT04482647