Can Thought Field Therapy (TFT) be Helpful for Patients With an Anxiety Disorder?

Sorlandet Hospital HF

Status: Completed

Conditions: Social Phobia; PTSD; Agoraphobia

Treatments: Behavioral: Thought Field Therapy (TFT)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00202709

SSHF-AUIR-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to find out if Thought Field Therapy has effect on certain anxiety disorders; agoraphobia, social phobia, and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Full description

Thought Field Therapy is an alternative treatment method that has been shown, by casuistic reports, to give good results when applied for anxiety disorders. In this study 52 patients, with one or more of the diagnoses agoraphobia, social phobia and/or PTSD, where randomized to either treatment with TFT or a wait list. The treatment group all got treatment in one week. 2 1/2 months later both the treatment group and the control group were tested on the same items as before the treatment started. After this evaluation phase the control group got the same treatment as the treatment or study group. Both groups were evaluated 3 and 12 months after treatment, the study group also 6 months after treatment. 4 patients were omitted because they changed groups. The study were performed from May 2002 until June 2003.

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• One or more of the study diagnoses agoraphobia, social phobia and/or PTSD

Exclusion criteria

• Ongoing psychosis
• Ongoing serious drug problems

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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52 participants in 2 patient groups

Thought Field Therapy (TFT)

Experimental group

Description:

Treatment with TFT, first one hour, then 1/2 hour.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Thought Field Therapy (TFT)

Wait list control

No Intervention group