Recruiting
Phase 1

CT-TIY

Sponsor:

The University of Akron

Code:

NCT07546266

Conditions

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)

Psychological Well Being

Psychological Trauma, Historical

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: Female

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

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

Enhanced Care as Usual (ECU)

Study Details

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

Study ID

NCT07546266

Start date

May 15, 2026

Status verified date

Apr, 2026

Completion date

Dec 31, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jun 30, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: Female

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 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

Study Design

Enrollment

40 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

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

15 weekly sessions of the SOAR yoga program

other: Enhanced Care as Usual (ECU)

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

Interventions

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

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.

Enhanced Care as Usual (ECU)

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

Primary outcome measure

  • Ryff Psychological Wellbeing Scale [ Time Frame: Baseline, 16 weeks, 27 weeks ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Locations

the University of Akron

Recruiting

Akron, Ohio, United States, 44313

Contacts

Dawn M Johnson, Ph.D.

330-972-2505

More Information

Sponsor

The University of Akron

Last update posted

Apr 28, 2026

Last verified

Apr, 2026

Keywords

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

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by The University of Akron on 2026-04-28.