Healing Touch & Guided Imagery for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01348750

Run by

Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine

People needed

123

Starts

2008-07-01

Expected to finish

2010-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2011-05-05

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Female or male subjects 18 years or older
• Post-deployment from a combat zone
• Identified by post-deployment health re-assessment to have PTSD symptoms
• Referred by Camp Pendleton
• Subjects who are willing to sign a consent
• Subjects who are willing to participate for the length of the study
• Exclusions:
• Female subjects who are now pregnant or nursing
• Subjects who are receiving healing touch or using guided imagery from other sources
• Subjects who have any major health condition that may interfere with participating in this study

Where it is running

• Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine — La Jolla, California, United States

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