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NCT07259005: BHBE
Breathe Hard to Breathe Easy: Online Breathwork-Assisted Therapy for Social Anxiety
NA trial testing Breathwork-Assisted Therapy 1 in Social Anxiety in 96 participants. Currently enrolling.
10 April 2027
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Maastricht University |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Recruiting now |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | single |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 96 |
| Start date | 10 April 2025 |
| Primary completion | 10 April 2027 |
| Estimated completion | 10 April 2028 |
| Sites | 1 location across Netherlands |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Breathwork-Assisted Therapy 1
- Breathwork-Assisted Therapy 2
Conditions studied
- Social Anxiety — all drugs for Social Anxiety →
Sponsor
Maastricht University
Who can join
Adults 18 to 65, any sex, with Social Anxiety. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
This study aims to investigate the potential of supplementing psychotherapy with breathing techniques as a new online therapeutic approach to reduce social anxiety (SA). Clinically significant SA affects a substantial portion of the population (about 13%) and is associated with strong negative feelings of shame and anxiety in social settings. Such emotional distress leads to impairment in personal, relational, and professional functioning and may result in increasing degrees of social isolation. In response to the demand for improved treatments for SA, this project aims to explore the efficacy of a novel treatment approach integrating online psychotherapy with online breathwork sessions designed to induce ASC. We will recruit 96 individuals with SA, who will be randomly divided into two groups: one group will receive the new combined breathwork-assisted psychotherapy, and the other an active control intervention that does not induce ASC. Over the treatment duration, the effectiveness of these treatments will be closely monitored using established psychological scales and by observing patients in live interactions before and after therapy. This project is expected to open the way to a more accessible and effective treatment option for a large group of people struggling with SA. More broadly, the findings will also contribute to our understanding of how ASC, induced through breathing techniques, can be used therapeutically. This could change the way a variety of mental health conditions (e.g., other anxiety-related conditions and depression) are treated, making a substantial impact on public health and the way mental health disorders are approached and managed.
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- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT07259005 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Maastricht University
- Last refreshed: 2 December 2025
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