A Pilot Test of the Relaxation Response Resiliency Program (3RP) in Spanish Speaking World Trade Center Survivors With Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

In brief

The objective of this protocol is to test the feasibility and acceptability of the Relaxation Response Resiliency Program (3RP), a psychotherapy treatment providing a variety of mind body skills and interventions to decrease medical and mental health symptoms and build resilience, in Spanish-speaking World Trade Center (WTC) survivors, and to examine its clinical effectiveness to reduce Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, and lower respiratory symptoms (LRS) and improve psychosocial functioning.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02723097

Run by

NYU Langone Health

People needed

20

Starts

2016-03-01

Expected to finish

2017-10-11

Last updated by the study team

2017-10-18

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• score > or = 44 on the PTSD Checklist PCL, considered the broad definition of PTSD syndrome71
• report at least one LRS symptoms (i.e., shortness of breath, wheezing, dyspnea or cough).
• Spanish Speaking

You may not qualify if…

• regular practice of eliciting relaxation response (i.e., meditation, yoga) in the past 6 months,
• serious unmanaged mental illness including bipolar disorder, psychosis, and active substance misuse disorders;
• inability to participate in consecutive sessions over 3-month period.

Where it is running

• New York University School of Medicine — New York, New York, United States

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