Mind-Body Skills Groups for the Treatment of War-Related Trauma in Children in Gaza

The Center for Mind-Body Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Mind-Body Skills Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01595477

GC-CMBM-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study is to determine whether participation in a mind-body skills program by war-traumatized children in Gaza will result in improvement of posttraumatic stress symptoms, depression, and decreased hopelessness compared to a control group.

Enrollment: 114 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 months to 13 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• having experienced a political violence or war-related criterion A stressor
• meeting the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-IV-TR) criteria for PTSD according to screening scores on the Child PTSD Symptom Scale

Exclusion criteria

• former psychosocial or medical treatment for mental health conditions
• significant cognitive impairment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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114 participants in 2 patient groups

Mind-Body Skills Groups

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mind-Body Skills Group

Control Group

No Intervention group