A Trial on the Effect of Emotional Disclosure of Traumatic Life Events on Physical Health

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Behavioral: emotional disclosure; Behavioral: placebo writing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00896844

1-Meads

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a randomized, controlled trial on the effect of emotional disclosure of traumatic life events on physical health. The hypothesis is that expression of emotions could possibly improve physical health.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• healthy

Exclusion criteria

• any mental or physical illnesses in the last three months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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100 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

emotional disclosure

Experimental group

Description:

writing about emotional events from the past

Treatment:

Behavioral: emotional disclosure

placebo writing

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

writing about how they spent their time the previous day

Treatment:

Behavioral: placebo writing