Yoga for Black and Brown Women Who Have Experienced Abuse From an Intimate Partner

NCT07546266 | Recruiting Phase 1

• 2 other identifiers: IRB-2025-9515JOVW-24-GG01529
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 40
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to determine if a culturally tailored and trauma-informed yoga (CT-TIY) program improves the overall well-being of Black and Brown women who have experienced IPV. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• What is the feasibility, acceptability, and safety of delivering the CT-TIY program?
• Do participants randomized to the CT-TIY program experience increases in our primary outcome of psychological well-being relative to women randomized to an enhanced care-as-usual control condition?
• Do participants randomized to the CT-TIY program experience improvements in our secondary outcomes of empowerment, resilience, health-related quality of life, collective self-esteem, and culturally specific coping relative to participants randomized to an enhanced care-as-usual control condition? Researchers will compare CT-TIY to enhanced care-as-usual to see if CT-TIY to determine the feasibility, acceptability, safety, as well as initial efficacy of the yoga program. Participants randomized to the CT-TIY program will:
• Have 15 weeks to complete a target of 10 CT-TIY yoga classes
• Provide feedback on the CT-TIY program after each class they attend
• Complete assessments at Baseline, after completing the CT-TIY program (week 16), as well as 3-months (week 27) after completing the CT-TIY program
• Complete an exit interview where they provide feedback on their experiences in the yoga program Participants randomized to the enhanced care-as-usual control condition will:
• Receive a referral to a domestic violence provider and the Futures without Violence General Health Safety Card, designed to help women recognize how their relationship impacts their health and the lives of their children, and provides information on safety planning and hotlines for support.
• Complete assessments at Baseline, week 16, and week 27 of the study.

Conditions

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV); Psychological Well Being; Psychological Trauma, Historical

Keywords

women of color; minority health; yoga; trauma informed; sister circles; domestic violence; intimate partner violence

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Ryff Psychological Wellbeing Scale

  42 item measure of psychological wellbeing with scores ranging from 42-294; higher scores = higher wellbeing

  Baseline, 16 weeks, 27 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Personal Progress Scale Revised

  Baseline, 16 weeks, 27 weeks

• Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale 10

  Baseline, 16 weeks, 27 weeks

• Short Form 8 Health Survey

  Baseline, 16 weeks, 27 weeks

• Collective Self-Esteem Scale

  Baseline, 16 weeks, 27 weeks

• Africultural Coping Systems Inventory

  Baseline, 16 weeks, 27 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Culturally Tailored, Trauma-Informed Yoga (CT-TIY)

EXPERIMENTAL

15 weekly sessions of the SOAR yoga program

Behavioral: Culturally-Tailored, Trauma-Informed Yoga (CT-TIY)

Enhanced Care as Usual (ECU)

OTHER

Referral to domestic violence provider and the Futures without Violence General Health Safety Card

Other: Enhanced Care as Usual (ECU)

Interventions

Culturally-Tailored, Trauma-Informed Yoga (CT-TIY) BEHAVIORAL

Participants will be offered 15 weekly yoga classes and encouraged to attend at least 10 classes. Each class will be 75 minutes long. Yoga classes will include time to settle in, opening and closing rituals, breathwork and mindful movement. Childcare and transportation assistance (e.g., bus passes, gas cards) will be provided.

Also known as: SOAR

Culturally Tailored, Trauma-Informed Yoga (CT-TIY)

Enhanced Care as Usual (ECU) OTHER

Participants will be offered a referral to a local domestic violence provider, as well as the Futures without Violence General health Safety Card which is designed to help women recognize how their relationship impacts their health and the lives of their children, and provides information on safety planning and hotlines for support

Enhanced Care as Usual (ECU)

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Gender Eligibility Details: Must self-identify as women
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Self-identify as a Woman of Color (WOC).
• Lifetime experience of intimate partner violence (IPV)
• Age 18 years or older.
• Willingness to complete study procedures

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The University of Akron: lead

Study Sites (1)

the University of Akron

Akron, Ohio, 44313, United States

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Psychological Well-Being; Historical Trauma

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Personal Satisfaction; Behavior; Psychological Trauma; Stress Disorders, Traumatic; Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders; Mental Disorders

Central Study Contacts

Dawn Johnson, Ph.D.

CONTACT

330-972-7111; johnsod@uakron.edu

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 1
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: Participants will be randomized to either a culturally tailored, trauma-informed yoga program or enhanced care as usual

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 15, 2026
• First Posted: April 22, 2026
• Study Start (Estimated): May 15, 2026
• Primary Completion (Estimated): June 30, 2027
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2027
• Last Updated: April 28, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ICF, ANALYTIC CODE
• Time Frame: Data will be made available upon completion of the study and publication of the primary findings. It is anticipated that archiving will occur within one year of the study's end date.
• Access Criteria: De-identified individual participant data and supporting documents will be archived with the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD). Interested researchers may access the data through the NACJD's established request and download procedures.

Locations

US (1)