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The Effects of Emotional Exposure on State Anxiety

NCT03458702 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 56

Last updated 2019-11-25

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Summary

A randomized repeated-measures crossover clinical trial was performed. Forty healthy, female college students completed a 30 min session of YogaFit and a time-matched seated rest condition on separate days. After each condition, participants viewed 30 min of emotional picture stimuli. State anxiety, heart rate and time-domain and frequency-domain measures of HRV were assessed baseline, post- condition, and post-exposure to emotional stimuli. Data were analysed using a condition x time (2 × 3) repeated-measures ANOVA.

Conditions

  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

YogaFit

For YogaFit Vinyasa Flow (referred to as YogaFit in this manuscript)\], participants followed, via digital versatile disc, a standardized YogaFit format choreographed by an American Council of Exercise Certified and Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT). YogaFit was performed in the same laboratory setting and lasted 30 min. YogaFit is a westernized version of yoga that does not use Sanskrit terms (Shaw 2009). Breath was an integral part of every movement with specific breath rates for each phase of the session. The objective was to move the body with intention and purpose and be present in the body.

BEHAVIORAL

Quiet Rest

Participants completed 30 min of quiet rest

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Texas Tech University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jacalyn Robert-McComb, PhD · Texas Tech University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
25 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-09-12
Primary Completion
2014-03-15
Completion
2014-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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