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Effects of Shirodhara in treatment of sleep disorders.

Phase 1
Completed
Conditions
Health Condition 1: G470- Insomnia
Registration Number
CTRI/2018/12/016775
Lead Sponsor
Centre for Integrative Medicine and Research CIMR
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
50
Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients diagnosed with Chronic Insomnia Disorder based on ICSD-3 Criteria at the time of screening at Department of psychiatry, AIIMS, Delhi.

2. Habitual bedtime between 9:00 pm and midnight.

3. Able and willing to follow all study related instructions and to make all required visits.

4. Insomnia severity index score between 15-21.

Exclusion Criteria

1.Shirodhara therapy related:

a)Patients with known allergy to oil formulations / massage.

b)Any injury over head / neck, presence of an open wound / abrasion on over forehead & scalp region.

c)Central / peripheral neuropathy.

d)Patients having problems in lying supine for 1 hour.

e)Patients who cannot be relied upon to comply with the therapy procedures or are unwilling to give informed consent.

2.Patients with substance abuse (excluding tobacco, alcohol), severe depressive, psychotic or bipolar disorder with significant suicide risk.

3.Patient diagnosed other primary sleep disorders (OSA, RLS and circadian rhythm sleep disorders etc) will be excluded from study.

4.Patients having sleep schedule changes associated with shift work or night shifts in previous 7 days before study initiation or who intend to do the same during the study period.

5.Patients with clinically significant uncontrolled endocrine, metabolic, hepatic, renal, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, respiratory, hematological or neurological illness.

6.Patients with history of malignancy, seizures or significant head trauma.

7.Pregnant or lactating women.

8.Patients in whom another investigational drug was used within three months prior to entry in this study.

9.Subjects otherwise judged by investigator or co- investigator to be inappropriate for inclusion in the study.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
1. By use of Actigraph-Time to sleep onset,Wake time after sleep onset,Sleep Efficiency,Total sleep time, Nocturnal awakenings after sleep onset (NE) <br/ ><br>2.Insomnia Severity index (ISI) <br/ ><br>3.Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) <br/ ><br>4.Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) <br/ ><br>5.Sleep Diary assessmentTimepoint: For Shirodhara group- At Baseline, after 7 sessions and (i.e. 7 ±3 days), 7 days after intervention. <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>for control group - Baseline, After 10 days and 17 days
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
1. Depression Anxiety Stress Scale <br/ ><br>2. Salivary cortisol <br/ ><br>3. Improvement in symptoms of insomnia & manasa bhava pariksha as per Ayurveda <br/ ><br>4. Respiratory rate (RR), <br/ ><br>Pulse rate (PR) <br/ ><br>Blood pressure (BP) <br/ ><br>5. Visual analogue scale (V.A.S) for StressTimepoint: For Shirodhara group- At Baseline, after 7 sessions and (i.e. 7 ±3 days), 7 days after intervention. <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>for control group - Baseline, After 10 days and 17 days
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