Hatha Yoga for Patients With Colorectal Cancer (YoCo)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01669109 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : August 20, 2012
Last Update Posted : January 10, 2014
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Colorectal Neoplasms | Behavioral: Hatha yoga | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 54 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | Single (Outcomes Assessor) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | Hatha Yoga for Patients With Colorectal Cancer - a Randomized Controlled Trial |
Study Start Date : | September 2012 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | December 2013 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | December 2013 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Hatha yoga
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Behavioral: Hatha yoga |
No Intervention: Usual care
Patients continue their self-directed usual care
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- Health-related quality of life [ Time Frame: Week 10 ]Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Colorectal Cancer (FACT-C)
- Health-related quality of life [ Time Frame: Week 22 ]- Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Colorectal Cancer (FACT-C)
- Fatigue [ Time Frame: Week 10, week 22 ]Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Fatigue (FACIT-F)
- Anxiety, depression [ Time Frame: Week 10, week 22 ]Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)
- Sleep quality [ Time Frame: Week 10, week 22 ]Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)
- Safety [ Time Frame: Week 0-22 ]Number and severity of adverse events
- Spiritual well-being [ Time Frame: Week 10, week 22 ]- Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Spirituality (FACIT-Sp)
- Body awareness/bodily dissociation [ Time Frame: Week 10, week 22 ]
- Scale of Body Connection (SBC)
- Used in mediation analysis
- Body efficacy expectation [ Time Frame: Week 10, week 22 ]
- Body Efficacy-Expectation Scale
- Used in mediation analysis
- Qualitative Interviews [ Time Frame: Week 11 ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Colorectal cancer
- UICC stage I-III
- between 2 and 48 months post-surgery
- age at least 18 years
- physical and cognitive ability to follow the yoga intervention
Exclusion Criteria:
- UICC stage IV
- further active oncological diseases
- diagnosed and pharmacologically treated psychiatric disorder except for cancer-related depression or adjustment disorder
- pregnancy or breastfeeding

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01669109
Germany | |
Department of Internal and Complementary Medicine, Immanuel Hospital Berlin | |
Berlin, Germany, 14109 | |
Department for Internal and Integrative Medicine, Essen-Mitte Clinics | |
Essen, Germany, 45276 |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Holger Cramer, Postdoctoral fellow, Universität Duisburg-Essen |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01669109 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
12-4957-BO |
First Posted: | August 20, 2012 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | January 10, 2014 |
Last Verified: | January 2014 |
Keywords provided by Holger Cramer, Universität Duisburg-Essen:
Yoga Colorectal Neoplasms Quality of Life Randomized Controlled Trial |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Colorectal Neoplasms Intestinal Neoplasms Gastrointestinal Neoplasms Digestive System Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Neoplasms |
Digestive System Diseases Gastrointestinal Diseases Colonic Diseases Intestinal Diseases Rectal Diseases |