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Healing Touch & Guided Imagery for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms

NCT01348750 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 123

Last updated 2011-05-05

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Summary

This is a randomized controlled 2 year trial at Camp Pendleton, CA to determine whether a complementary medicine intervention (Healing Touch with Guided Imagery, HT+GI) reduces Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms as compared to treatment as usual (TAU) in returning combat-exposed active duty military with significant PTSD symptoms. Secondary aims will evaluate the effect of HT and GI on measures of depression, hostility, and general health status in this population.

Conditions

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Interventions

OTHER

Healing Touch & Guided Imagery

Healing Touch (HT) is an energy based approach to health and healing. It uses light touch to influence the energy field that surrounds the body, and the energy centers which control the flow of energy to the physical body. HT complements traditional health care and is used together with other approaches to health and healing. Guided Imagery (GI) is a form of focused relaxation used to create harmony between the mind and body. Positive mental imagery can promote relaxation, reduce stress and improve mood as well as alter heart rate, blood pressure and breathing.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton

    collaborator OTHER

  • Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Erminia M Guarneri, MD · Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-07-31
Primary Completion
2010-07-31
Completion
2010-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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