Does Conscious Connected Breathwork Reduce Symptoms of Anxiety?

Completed · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Anxiety

In brief

The goal of this clinical trial is to test whether conscious connected breathwork reduces symptoms of anxiety in people with mild to severe anxiety symptoms, as measured by the Zung Self Rating Anxiety Scale. The main questions aims to answer: 1. Does conscious connected breathwork reduce symptoms of anxiety? 2. Does an increased frequency of self-practice lead to even greater reductions of anxiety symptoms. there is a comparison group: Researchers will compare whether people doing the breathwork to see if \[insert effects\]. Participants will participate in 1, 90 minute breath workshop per week for 6 weeks. These sessions will be held on Zoom by 2 facilitators. Participants will also be given a 10 minute recording of a guided conscious connected breathwork session that they will be encouraged to complete daily.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06374810

Run by

Richard Blake

People needed

108

Starts

2023-09-21

Expected to finish

2023-12-20

Last updated by the study team

2024-04-22

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Scores of 35 or higher on the Zung self-rating anxiety scale

You may not qualify if…

• anyone having completed more than 4 sessions of Conscious Connected Breathwork
• Anyone who has recently (within 1 year) started anti-depressant medication or psychotherapy
• Anyone with a history of panic disorder, psychosis, angina, pregnant, seizure disorder, glaucoma

Where it is running

• CIIS — San Francisco, California, United States

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