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Expressive Writing in Male Infertility

NCT00385346 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 56

Last updated 2010-06-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether expressive writing can be effective in improving the well-being and sperm quality in patients with male infertility.

Conditions

  • Infertility, Male

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Expressive writing

Patients in the intervention group write on three day for 20 minutes about highly emotional topics In the control group patients write on three days for 20 minutes about topics with relatively low emotional involvement such as diet, time management and sport.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Bonn

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Reinhard Liedtke, MD · University of Bonn, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-11-30
Primary Completion
2008-06-30
Completion
2009-02-28

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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