Bilateral Brain Stimulation in Trauma Therapy

Ciclo de Mutação

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention Study

Handling (Psychology)

Treatments

Behavioral: EMDR standard protocol

Behavioral: protocol without brain stimulation

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03086083

0000-0002-5442-4488

Details and patient eligibility

About

Comparatively studied the effects of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) bilateral brain stimulation in trauma therapy.

A randomized, parallel, before-after, blind study was performed.

Full description

Comparatively studied the effects of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) bilateral brain stimulation in trauma therapy.

A randomized, parallel, before-after, blind study was performed. Thirty nine subjects were randomly distributed to two groups: one session of EMDR psychotherapy standard and other with EMDR standard protocol without its typical brain bilateral stimulation. The results of the Beck scales for anxiety, depression and hopelessness and the impact of events test were compared between groups.

Enrollment

40 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria for the study were to be a university student, over 18 years old, to have a complaint associated to a traumatic life event and to have accepted to participate of the study.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria were the existence of untreated psychiatric disorders and the hypothesis of worsening of the subject's status as the number of sessions in this study was restricted to once.