Healing Touch & Guided Imagery for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms

Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Treatments: Other: Healing Touch & Guided Imagery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01348750

PTSD_HSC07_4684

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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 .

Enrollment: 123 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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123 participants in 2 patient groups

Group A

Other group

Description:

This group receives 6 Healing Touch \& Guided Imagery treatments in addition to standard medical care.

Treatment:

Other: Healing Touch & Guided Imagery

Group B

No Intervention group

Description:

This group receives standard medical care but NO Healing Touch and Guided Imagery.