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Wellness Programs for Brain-Injured Individuals

NCT02600637 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 37

Last updated 2019-07-24

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Summary

Summary: Thousands of Veterans suffer a stroke every year, and these individuals often suffer emotional and cognitive changes that negatively affect their quality of life as well as their ability to recover. In addition to traditional rehabilitation such as physical and occupational therapy, a number of alternative treatments are now being studied for their ability to enhance patients' recovery following stroke. One of these treatments, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction or MBSR, involves an 8-week course that teaches individuals strategies such as breathing techniques, meditation, and movement therapy. The current pilot study proposes to teach MBSR to a group of Veterans with a history of stroke to determine whether this type of intervention is feasible, acceptable to patients, and shows preliminary evidence of beneficial effects on psychological and cognitive functioning. The investigators hope to find that MBSR is a useful, additional intervention that can improve Veterans' well-being and quality of life as they recover from stroke.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

MBSR

Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction is an 8-week course designed to teach a number of mindfulness techniques to help improve stress- and depression-related symptoms.

BEHAVIORAL

Brain Health class

An 8-week course on brain health will be administered to participants as an active control group.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Juliana V. Baldo, PhD · VA Northern California Health Care System, Mather, CA

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-11-01
Primary Completion
2018-04-10
Completion
2018-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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