Effect of Different Pranayama Breathing Techniques on Quality of Life in Hypertensive Patients

Hypertension Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effect of Bhramari Versus Sheetali Pranayama on Quality of Life in Hypertensive Patients

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05651854
• Other study ID #: Pranayama on hypertension
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 1, 2022
• Est. completion date: February 28, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: December 2022
• Source: Cairo University
• Contact: salma elsheikh, assistant lecturer
• Phone: 01118254965
• Email: selsheikh25[@]yahoo.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of the current study is to compare between the effect of Bhramari pranayama versus Sheetali pranayama on quality of life in hypertensive patients.

Description:

People with hypertension have poorer sleep quality, less physical activity and more psychological stress than those with normal blood pressure. It has been shown that sleep affects vitality and health status and that sleep problems affect daily functioning and QOL, and so it can be assumed that in patients with hypertension, sleep problems will have a negative effect on QOL (Uchmanowicz et al., 2019).

Yogic breathing exercises are known as Pranayamas and are considered a form of meditation in itself, as well as a preparation for deep meditation. They promote physical well-being and self-awareness, improve lung and cognitive capacities, reduce blood pressure, anxiety, and other psychosomatic patterns, probably by increasing the parasympathetic tone. Pranayama alone has demonstrated numerous beneficial health effects, including stress relief, beneficial cardiovascular effect, improved respiratory function, and enhanced cognition (Jayawardena et al.,2020 ).

Since there is no study examined effect of Bhramari versus Sheetali on quality of life, physical fitness and stress in hypertensive elderly, this study aimed to examine this comparison.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 60
• Est. completion date: February 28, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: February 15, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 60 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Sixty elderly are selected from both sexes. 2-Their age ranges from 60-75 years old. 3-Hypertensive patients (SBP is 140 -159 mmHg and/or DBP is 90-99 mmHg).

4-Their body mass index (BMI) ranged from < 30kg/m2. 5-All patients are medically stable.

Exclusion Criteria:

• - patients with cardiac problems e.g. atrial fibrillation, left bundle-branch block, heart failure, Recent myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease, or participation in cardiac rehabilitation following bypass surgery.

2- Patients with history, symptoms of, and/or laboratory reports suggestive of renal, neurologic, or hepatic complications.

3-Patients who have difficulty in rolling the tongue for Sheetali practice as stroke or Bell's palsy.

4- Tongue swelling in case of acromegaly, amyloidosis, Myxedema and tongue cancer.

5- Tongue pain in case of diabetic neuropathy, mouth ulcers, oral cancer and burn in the mouth.

6- Chronic smokers and alcoholics. 7- Severe ear infections that interfere with bhramari breathing.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Aging Problems
• Hypertension
• Stress

Intervention

Other:
• pranayama breathing
Bhramari and sheetali pranayama breathing

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	Faculty of Physical Therapy	Dokki	Giza

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Cairo University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	cortisol	serum cortisol level	3 months
Secondary	Nitric oxide	serum nitric oxide	3 months
Secondary	systolic blood pressure	systolic blood pressure	3 months
Secondary	diastolic blood pressure	diastolic blood pressure	3 months
Secondary	30 seconds sit to stand test	physical fitness assessment	3 months
Secondary	SF12 quality of life questionnaire	quality of life questionnaire	3 months