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Meditation Interventions for Treatment of PTSD in Veterans

NCT01548742 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 116

Last updated 2015-12-10

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Summary

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating psychiatric disorder which results in serious impairments in interpersonal, occupational and social functioning. Effective treatments are available for PTSD but they do not work for everyone. Alternative treatments are needed to help those veterans not helped by currently available treatments. Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a group based treatment focused on mindfulness meditation. MBSR has been found to be effective in helping people with problems with pain and anxiety. MBSR has not yet been studied in veterans with PTSD. The proposed study will compare MBSR with a standard psychotherapy treatment in veterans with PTSD. This research is relevant to Veterans' health because of the need to develop alternative treatments for veterans with PTSD who have not responded to currently available treatments.

Conditions

  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a group based treatment focused on progressive training in mindfulness meditation.

BEHAVIORAL

Present-Centered Group Therapy (PCGT)

Present-Centered Group Therapy (PCGT) is a group therapy focused on current problems.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Kelvin Lim, MD · Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-03-31
Primary Completion
2014-06-30
Completion
2014-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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