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Blending Two Worlds: Traditional Aboriginal Healing Strategies for Depression and Anxiety

NCT00749177 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 4

Last updated 2015-03-06

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Summary

1. Purpose

1. Provide a culturally sensitive and supportive treatment environment for children, youth and families in the aboriginal community experiencing stress, anxiety and depression.
2. Gain insight into understanding of the role of Traditional Healing options provided by Aboriginal Healers and Helpers in the management of stress, anxiety and depression.
3. Encourage Aboriginal and First Nation clients to seek treatment earlier from a culturally supportive system.
2. Hypothesis

This will be a descriptive hypothesis generating research project, however it is anticipated that members of the Aboriginal community experiencing stress, anxiety and depression may experience improved care and outcomes if their treatment includes traditional healing methods. A number of measures of subject and treatment characteristics, stress, anxiety and depression will provide the foundation for triangulation of outcomes in order to describe the impact of the various treatment options (standard care, Traditional Healing, combined standard care and Traditional Healing).

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Traditional Healing options

Dream work, energy healing, healing circles, pipe ceremonies, self care, smudging, sweat lodges and traditional learning.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ministry of Children and Family Development, British Columbia

    collaborator OTHER

  • Fraser Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Deborah L Thompson, BScPharm, BCPP, PharmD · Fraser Health

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-11-30
Primary Completion
2011-08-31
Completion
2011-08-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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Diseases

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