A Psychomotor Group Intervention for Young Adults With Anxiety Symptoms

Development and Feasibility of a Group-based Psychomotor Intervention for Anxiety in Young Adults

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a psychomotor (a body-oriented therapy) group intervention can be feasibly delivered to a group of young adults (age 18-35) with anxiety symptoms within a higher educational setting.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Is it possible to recruit and retain participants in this intervention?
• Is the intervention acceptable and tolerable to participants?
• Do participants complete the planned sessions and assessments?

Participants will:

• Attend one weekly group session over ten consecutive weeks
• Participate in active and contemplative body-based exercises
• Complete questionnaires about their mental health and interviews about their experiences of participating

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Anxiety; Feasibility Studies; Interoception; Stress and Anxiety; Interoceptive Awareness; The Focus of the Study is Feasibility Measures Such as Recruitment, Retention, Fidelity, and Acceptability
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Ten weekly psychomotor therapy group sessions

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 12
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Denmark
  • Region Midt
    • Aarhus, Region Midt, Denmark, 8200
      • VIA University College

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Psychomotor intervention group	Behavioral: Ten weekly psychomotor therapy group sessions; Ten weekly sessions of a psychomotor therapy group program. Session duration: 2½ hours. Group size: 12 participants. Sessions include psychoeducational content and body-oriented exercises such as breathing exercises, relaxation exercises, body scans, or grounding exercises.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of participants recruited	Enrollment during a three month period from June 2025 to September 2025. Enrollment interview was approximately 20 minutes. Participants had the option of attending a one hour information meeting.	For each participant: 20 minutes during the three month enrollment period.
Number of participants retained		From enrollment to end of intervention at 11 weeks
Attendance	Number of participants attending each of the ten weekly sessions	From beginning of intervention to end of intervention at 11 weeks
Acceptability to participants	Evaluated through qualitative interviews with a duration of 45-60 minutes	Post intervention at 12 weeks
Fidelity of the intervention	The extent to which intervention components were administered as intended. This was registered by an observer who registered any deviations from a therapy manual.	From beginning of intervention to end of intervention at 11 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Changes in Beck Anxiety Inventory	21 items rated on a four-point Likert scale with scores ranging rom 0 (no anxiety) to 21 (worst possible anxiety)	Baseline and post-intervention at 11 weeks
Changes in Perceived Stress Scale	Ten items rated on a five-point Likert scale with scores ranging from 0 (no stress) - 40 (maximum stress)	Baseline and post-intervention at 11 weeks
Changes i WHO-Five Well-Being Index	A five-item measure rated on a six-point Likert scale with scores ranging from 0 (worst possible well-being) to 100 (maximum well-being)	Baseline and post-intervention at 11 weeks
Changes in Multiple Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness	Body awareness measured through 32 items across eight subscales rated on a six-point Likert scale, reported as mean scores on each subscale (range 0-5)	Baseline and post-intervention at 11 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: VIA University College

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 12, 2025
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 18, 2025
• Study Completion (Actual): December 18, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 12, 2026
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 25, 2026
• First Posted (Actual): July 2, 2026

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 2, 2026
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 25, 2026
• Last Verified: June 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: anxiety; feasibility; body awareness; interoception; anxiety symptoms; psychomotor therapy; interoceptive awareness; mind-body interventions
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Anxiety Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: 9001099

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED
• IPD Plan Description: Small scale feasibility study data.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No