This is a feasibility study to see if it is acceptable and helpful for people living with a functional neurological disorder to receive online group yoga sessions to improve their wellbeing
Participants able to give informed consent.
Aged 18 years and over.
Participants with a confirmed clinical diagnosis of functional neurological disorder with dissociative seizures.
Access to WiFi and an electronic device on which to view and participate in the yoga programme.
Participants with severe fatigue that would prevent engagement for the duration of the intervention (assessed by clinical neurology team member).
Participants who regularly practice yoga i.e., participants who practice each week.
People with a confirmed concurrent diagnosis of epilepsy.
Single group
A12 week, twice weekly, small group, online yoga program
Other interventionA 12 week, twice weekly, small group, online yoga program
The number of participants who fully complete their twice weekly, 12 week online yoga intervention.
The number of participants who fully complete their twice weekly, 12 week online yoga intervention will be recorded as an indicator of whether the intervention was acceptable to receive and feasible to deliver and receive.
Improvements in participants' self-reported health and well-being measured by the Brief Illness Perceptions Questionnaire.
This is an eight-item questionnaire in which participants rate each of the health and wellbeing metrics on a scale between 0-10, where higher scores indicate better health and wellbeing outcomes for questions 3,4,7, and higher scores indicate poorer health and wellbeing outcomes for questions 1,2,5,6,8. Participants can also report what they believe has caused their illness.
Improvements in participants' self-reported self-management measured by the Self-Management Assessment Scale.
This is a ten-item questionnaire in which participants rate each of the self-management metrics on a scale between 0-6, where higher scores indicate better self-management outcomes for all ten questions.
Improvements in participants' self-reported mental wellbeing measured by the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale.
This is a 14-item questionnaire in which participants rate each of the mental wellbeing metrics on a five-point Likert scale ranging from "none of the time" to "all of the time", where the "all of the time" responses indicate better mental wellbeing outcomes for all fourteen questions.
Improvements in participants' self-reported mental health measured by The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9).
This is a ten-item questionnaire in which participants rate each of the nine mental health metrics on a four-point Likert scale ranging from "not at all" to "nearly every day", where the "nearly every day" responses indicate worse mental health outcomes for all nine questions. The last question asks participants to indicate, on a four-point Likert scale ranging from "not difficult at all" to "extremely difficult", if any of the issues in the previous nine questions that they have experienced have led to difficulties at home, at work, or when interacting with other people.
Click on the lead sponsor to view all of their trials.
This trial is not recruiting at the moment. You can still explore other options:
