Mind-body Skills Groups for War-Related Trauma in Adolescents in Gaza

The Center for Mind-Body Medicine

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD

Treatments

Behavioral: Mind-Body Skills Groups

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT07302984

GT-CMBM-003

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if mind-body skills groups can reduce posttraumatic stress disorder and emotional and behavioral problems in war-traumatized adolescents in Gaza.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

Do mind-body skills groups reduce posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in war-traumatized adolescents in Gaza?
Do mind-body skills groups reduce emotional and behavioral problems in war-traumatized adolescents in Gaza?

Researchers will compare the results of adolescents who do not attend mind-body skills groups to adolescents who attend mind-body skills groups see if those who attend groups have less posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and emotional and behavioral problems.

Participants will:

Be screened to determine whether they qualify to be in the study
If they qualify, they will attend 5 mind-body skills group sessions (if they are not in the control group)
Fill out research packets before the first session, after the last session, and at 2-month follow-up.

Enrollment

120 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

11 to 17 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

being 11-17 years old and living in Gaza
having experienced a political violence or war-related criterion A stressor
meeting the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-(DSM-5-TR) criteria for PTSD according to the screening cut-off score on the Child PTSD Symptom Scale-5 (CPSS-5).

Exclusion criteria