Exercise-based Program for Rehabilitation of Veterans With Severe Mental Illness

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18-70
SponsorVA Office of Research and Development

About this trial

This is a hybrid1, effectiveness-implementation study of yoga-based exercises (YE) as an adjunctive tool for rehabilitation among persons with Severe Mental Illness (SMI). The two-arm randomized controlled trial will compare the efficacy of YE compared to the Wellness Lifestyle Program (WLP). Primary outcomes of the study will be self-report and performance-based measures of community functioning, defined in the investigators study as social, leisure, employment, and life skills functioning in the community. Secondary outcomes will include cognition and physical fitness measures.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Written informed consent;

age 18-70 years;

DSM-5 diagnosis of

schizophrenia,

Disqualifiers

Unable to provide written informed consent;

intellectual disability (i.e., severe enough to impact understanding of yoga-based exercises) based on chart or IQ<80 on the Wechslet Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence-II (WASI-II);

disability or illness precluding yoga-based exercises or wellness lifestyle program, e.g.,

current or recent angina (<6 months),

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Yoga-based Exercise (YE)
  • Wellness Lifestyle Program (WLP)

Treatment groups

112 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups