Could body awareness exercises ease anxiety in young adults?
NCT ID NCT07681765
First seen Jul 02, 2026 · Last updated Jul 02, 2026
Summary
This trial explores whether a group-based psychomotor therapy—using breathing, relaxation, and body awareness exercises—can be a practical and acceptable way to help young adults (ages 18-35) with anxiety. The study focuses on whether people will join and stick with the program, and how they experience it. It also measures changes in anxiety and stress levels.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- psychomotor therapy group sessions
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could provide a new, non-drug option for managing anxiety in young adults.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small feasibility study with only 12 participants, so results may not apply broadly. The therapy may not reduce anxiety for everyone.
This is an AI summary of the original study and may miss details. Read our disclaimer.
Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
-
Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
-
12 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
-
Sep 2025
- Finished
-
Dec 2025
- Lead sponsor
-
Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
-
18 to 34 years
- Sex
-
Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
-
Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
Show the full entry requirements Hide the full entry requirements
Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Age between 18 and 34 years * A score of at least 2 on item 10 of the Anxiety Symptom Scale (indicating the perceived strain of the experienced anxiety symptoms) and at least 1 on one or more of items 1-3 (generalized anxiety symptoms and avoidance behavior) * Sufficient Danish language proficiency to participate in group sessions and interviews Exclusion Criteria: * Physical or psychological conditions that prevents participation in group-based or bodily-activities, such as significant musculoskelatal impairment or current, untreated episodes of psychosis * Ongoing alcohol or substance abuse * Concurrent participation in another body-oriented intervention program
Get updates
Get notified about this study
Sign up to get updates when this study changes or when new studies for Anxiety are added.
Genom att skicka in godkänner du våra Användarvillkor
Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
-
VIA University College
Aarhus, Region Midt, 8200, Denmark
More trials for these conditions
Other studies related to the condition(s) this trial covers.
- Can video games calm anxious teens?
- Can a group program teach teens to cope before therapy starts?
- Could a Patient's playlist take the sting out of nerve testing?
- Three spanish group sessions put a neuroscience twist on anxiety therapy
- Can a rewired EMDR therapy ease the mental toll of migration?
- Can yoga calm anxious minds and sharpen focus?