Efficacy of Yoga for Treatment-Resistant Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Official title
Efficacy of Yoga for Treatment-Resistant PTSD
Brief summary
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The central question in this research proposal is: can a popular technique that specifically targets active mastery and improved affect regulation, yoga, which is utilized by approximately 4% of the US population each year (1), improve the constellation of PTSD symptoms, multiple somatic complaints, social and occupational impairment and high health care utilization that has been documented in hundreds of thousands of women in the US? The Primary Aims of this study include the following: 1. To test the short-term and long-term effectiveness of 10 weeks of yoga for treating treatment-resistant PTSD and compare it with attention controls receiving Women's Health Education (WHE). 2. To assess the short-term and long-term effects of yoga on a) co-morbid conditions, b) quality of life, c) body awareness, d) health care utilization and e) heart rate variability (HRV), in comparison to an attention control group.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00839813
- Recruitment status
- Not listed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 64 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 58 Years
- Sex
- Female
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Oct 31, 2008
- Primary completion
- Apr 30, 2011
- Completion
- Apr 30, 2011
- Last update posted
- Apr 5, 2011
2008 – 2011
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Trauma Center at JRI | Brookline | Massachusetts | 02446 | Recruiting |
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