Yoga Breath Program and Client-Centered Exposure for Relief of PTSD in Tsunami Victims

Victim Services Center, Miami

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Depression

Treatments: Behavioral: Breath Water Sound Course and Traumatic Incident Reduction

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00290225

VSCIAHVNIMHANS

Details and patient eligibility

About

Study hypothesis: that a standardized course of Eastern practices (Breath Water Sound Course -BWS) will significantly relieve PTSD and depression in tsunami victims. Further, that a client-centered exposure treatment (Traumatic Incident Reduction- TIR) would provide additional, significant relief of PTSD and depression in tsunami victims.

180 tsunami victims in Southern India will be divided into three groups: those that only receive BWS course, those that receive the BWS course and TIR and a wait-list control. They will be pretested with the PCL-17 (PTSD scale), the Beck Depression Inventory and the General Health Questionaire. These scales will also be administered post-service as well as five weeks post pre-testing and at three and six month intervals.

Enrollment: 180 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Tsunami witness, tsunami victim, and/or lost loved one or property.
2. Ages 18-70
3. Willing to participate for the entire length of this research study.

Exclusion criteria

1. Drug addiction, notwithstanding alcohol or tobacco.
2. Schizophrenia or other severe pre-existing mental illness
3. Severe physical disability or illness that would prevent study completion.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)