Loving-kindness Meditation for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research

Status: Completed

Conditions: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: loving-kindness meditation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01607632

00173

Details and patient eligibility

About

A before and after study of veterans who took part in a 12-week loving-kindness meditation course as an adjunct to their usual care for posttraumatic stress disorder.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• posttraumatic stress disorder

Exclusion criteria

• psychosis
• borderline personality disorder

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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42 participants in 1 patient group

loving-kindness meditation

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: loving-kindness meditation