Multidirectional Yoga for Cognition

NCT03799640 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 20180704
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 40
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 2

Brief Summary

Older individuals, 60-90, will be provided regular or cognitively based yoga training. They will then be evaluated using standard cognitive testing devices.

Conditions

Standard Yoga; Multi-directional Yoga; Educational Control

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (6)

• NIH Toolbox: Picture Sequence Memory Test

  Measures episodic memory. Participants are asked to reproduce a sequence of pictures that is shown on the screen.

  5 minutes

• NIH Toolbox Flanker test

  Measures attention and inhibitory control. Participant focuses on a given stimulus while inhibiting attention to stimuli flanking it.

  5 minutes

• NIH Toolbox List Sorting test

  Measures working memory. Participant recalls and sequences different visually and orally presented stimuli.

  5 minutes

• NIH Toolbox Pattern Comparison Processing Speed test

  Measures speed of processing. Participants discern whether two side-by-side pictures are the same or not, with 85 seconds to respond to as many items as possible. Items are simple so as to purely measure processing speed.

  5 minutes

• Walking Executive Function Tests

  Walking and responding to visual cues presented on a 60 inch monitor.

  10 minutes

• Timed up-and-go

  Rising from a chair, circumventing a cone and returning to the chair.

  5 minutes

Study Arms (3)

Standard Yoga

EXPERIMENTAL

Yoga will be performed using linear forward and backward movements.

Other: Multi-directional Yoga; Other: Educational Control

Multi-directional Yoga

EXPERIMENTAL

The multidirectional yoga training program will use both simple and complex movement sequences (asana or postures) that include a cognitive component. For example, participants will be taught a movement sequence that includes 16-20 yoga postures that increase in difficulty as the training progresses. .

Other: Standard Yoga; Other: Educational Control

Educational Control

EXPERIMENTAL

Lectures on Health and Wellness

Other: Standard Yoga; Other: Multi-directional Yoga

Interventions

Standard Yoga OTHER

Yoga using standard poses and linear movements

Educational Control; Multi-directional Yoga

Multi-directional Yoga OTHER

The multidirectional yoga training program will use both simple and complex movement sequences (asana or postures) that include a cognitive component. For example, participants will be taught a movement sequence that includes 16-20 yoga postures that increase in difficulty as the training progresses.

Educational Control; Standard Yoga

Educational Control OTHER

Lectures on health and fitness

Multi-directional Yoga; Standard Yoga

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 60 Years - 90 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• years of age
• Capable of walking 50 feet with or without a walking aid-

You may not qualify if:

• Regularly participating in yoga or other balance training program
• Currently participating in another exercise study
• Unable to commit to study duration
• Uncontrolled neuromuscular or cardiovascular disease that prevents participation in an exercise study
• Advised not to exercise by their physician

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Miami: lead

Study Sites (2)

Max Orovitz Laboratories

Coral Gables, Florida, 33146-2416, United States

Location

Laboratory of Neruomuscular Research and Active Aging

Coral Gables, Florida, 33147, United States

Location

Study Officials

• Joseph Signorile, PhD

  University of Miami

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR
• Masking Details: Tests will not be performed by the investigators providing the interventions..
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor

Model Details: Comparison of Yoga Interventions

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 8, 2019
• First Posted: January 10, 2019
• Study Start: December 5, 2018
• Primary Completion: August 15, 2019
• Study Completion: August 15, 2019
• Last Updated: September 10, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-09

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (2)