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Yoga Breath Program and Client-Centered Exposure for Relief of PTSD in Tsunami Victims

NCT00290225 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 180

Last updated 2007-05-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Study hypothesis: that a standardized course of Eastern practices (Breath Water Sound Course -BWS) will significantly relieve PTSD and depression in tsunami victims. Further, that a client-centered exposure treatment (Traumatic Incident Reduction- TIR) would provide additional, significant relief of PTSD and depression in tsunami victims.

180 tsunami victims in Southern India will be divided into three groups: those that only receive BWS course, those that receive the BWS course and TIR and a wait-list control. They will be pretested with the PCL-17 (PTSD scale), the Beck Depression Inventory and the General Health Questionaire. These scales will also be administered post-service as well as five weeks post pre-testing and at three and six month intervals.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Breath Water Sound Course and Traumatic Incident Reduction

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, India

    collaborator OTHER

  • The Art of Living Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • India: International Association for Human Values

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Victim Services Center, Miami

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Vedamurthy Achar, Ph.D. · National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India

  • Teresa Descilo, MSW · Victim Services Center, Miami

  • R. Damodoran, MA · International Association for Human Values

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-06-30
Completion
2005-12-31

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