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Trauma-Sensitive Yoga for Female Veterans With PTSD Who Experienced Military Sexual Trauma

NCT02640690 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 131

Last updated 2024-10-08

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Summary

In this study, we are evaluating the effectiveness of a yoga intervention to treat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), its associated symptoms of chronic pain and insomnia, and biological and physiological responses to trauma and PTSD in women Veterans who experienced military sexual trauma (MST). If effective, this yoga intervention could reduce PTSD symptoms and chronic pain, improve sleep quality, and decrease the body's automatic "fight or flight" stress response and the damage this stress response causes in the body, including heart disease and diabetes. This intervention could improve these women Veterans' quality of life and social functioning, for example, going to work and having satisfying relationships with family and friends. This study may support an innovative, complementary and alternative PTSD treatment for women Veterans who experienced MST. This new, evidence-based PTSD treatment could supplement current PTSD treatments. Clinical guidelines for this yoga intervention could be implemented nationally in the VA health care system.

Conditions

  • Stress Disorders, Post-traumatic

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Intervention (TCTSY)

(10) 1-hour sessions of trauma sensitive yoga

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive Processing Therapy

(12) 1.5 hour sessions of cognitive processing therapy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Ursula A Kelly, PhD MSN BA · Atlanta VA Medical and Rehab Center, Decatur, GA

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-01-01
Primary Completion
2021-02-26
Completion
2021-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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