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Impact of Prenatal Yoga Practice on Birth Outcome

NCT03941041 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 210

Last updated 2020-11-04

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Summary

Yoga is a body-mind practice that encompasses a system of postures (asana), stretching exercises combined with breathing (pranayama) and meditation (dharana). About 70% of practitioners are women, the majority of them in their reproductive age. Yoga is on the rise among pregnant women. Prenatal yoga appears to help pregnant women develop mental and physical health and build a connection with their unborn baby. It reduces stress and anxiety, lower back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms, nausea, headaches and shortness of breath, improves sleep and increase strength, flexibility and endurance of muscles needed for childbirth. A limited number of prospective randomized trials exist about the benefits of yoga in pregnancy and childbirth. An analysis of how yoga exercises in pregnancy affect the labour pattern, the outcome as well as the caesarean rate in a population of European pregnant women will be performed.

Conditions

  • Pregnancy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Prenatal Yoga Course

participation in a 12-week prenatal yoga course (optimally), 1 session in duration of 90 minutes per week

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Medical Centre Maribor

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lucija Kuder, MD · UMC Maribor

  • Vesna Elvedi Gasparovic, MD, PhD · Clinical Hospital Centre Zagreb

  • Faris Mujezinovic, MD, PhD · UMC Maribor

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
35 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-05-15
Primary Completion
2023-05-30
Completion
2023-12-31

Countries

  • Slovenia

Study Locations

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