Transcendental Meditation and Reduced Trauma Symptoms in Women Inmates: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 22
- 主要终点
- Posttraumatic Stress Checklist- Civilian Version (PCL-C) total score
研究概览
简要总结
The pilot study investigates the potential benefits of the Transcendental Meditation program in reducing trauma, including PTSD, in female prisoners. Subjects will be randomly assigned to either the TM program or a wait list control group for a period of four months.
详细描述
This randomized controlled pilot study will evaluate the effects of Transcendental Meditation ® (TM) on female offenders with trauma. Twenty-two inmates at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, Oregon, with at least four months left of incarceration, will be enrolled in the study. Subjects will be randomly assigned to either a TM (n=11) or a wait-list control group (n=11). Subjects will be measured at baseline and four-month posttest, using the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist-Civilian version (PCL-C) Twenty of the subjects (10 in each group) will take part in their treatment assignment and complete post-testing.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Crossover
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Investigator)
入排标准
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •female inmates, at least 4 months left of incarceration, signed written informed consent prior to baseline testing
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Posttraumatic Stress Checklist- Civilian Version (PCL-C) total score
时间窗: 4 months
The PCL-C is a widely-used 17-item self-report questionnaire of trauma symptom with total score and intrusions, avoidance and hyperarousal subscales
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Sanford Nidich
Principal Investigator, Associate Director
Maharishi International University