Healing Touch & Guided Imagery for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Clinical Trial

Official title:

Healing Touch and Guided Imagery Intervention in Post-deployment Military Personnel With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01348750
• Other study ID #: PTSD_HSC07_4684
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 3, 2011
• Last updated: May 4, 2011
• Start date: July 2008
• Est. completion date: August 2010

Study information

• Verified date: May 2011
• Source: Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

Description:

The study enrolled 123 active duty subjects from the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in Southern California with at least one or more symptoms of PTSD .

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 123
• Est. completion date: August 2010
• Est. primary completion date: July 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Female or male subjects 18 years or older

2. Post-deployment from a combat zone

3. Identified by post-deployment health re-assessment to have PTSD symptoms

4. Referred by Camp Pendleton

5. Subjects who are willing to sign a consent

6. Subjects who are willing to participate for the length of the study

Exclusions:

1. Female subjects who are now pregnant or nursing

2. Subjects who are receiving healing touch or using guided imagery from other sources

3. Subjects who have any major health condition that may interfere with participating in this study

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Investigator), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
• Stress Disorders, Traumatic

Intervention

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.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine	La Jolla	California

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine	Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton California

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	17-item PTSD Checklist (Military)is used to determine the effect of the intervention		After 6 treatments of healing touch and guided imagery	No
Secondary	Depression (Beck Depression Inventory)		After 6 treatments of healing touch and guided imagery	No
Secondary	Quality of Life (SF36)		After 6 treatments of healing touch and guided imagery	No
Secondary	Hostility (Cook-Medley Hostility Inventory)		After 6 treatments of healing touch and guided	No