Mind-Body Skills Groups for Behavioral and Emotional Problems in War-Traumatized Male Adolescents in Gaza
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 115
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study is to determine whether war-traumatize male adolescents with behavioral and emotional problems who participate in mind-body skills groups will have improvement in behavioral and emotional problems, aggression, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, compared to a wait list control group.
详细描述
Mind-body skills incorporate meditation, guided imagery, breathing techniques, autogenic training, biofeedback, genograms, and self-expression through words, drawings, and movement in a small group setting. These groups have been used in war-traumatize populations in Kosovo, Gaza and the United States. This study will be investigating the effect of the mind-body skills groups on boys with behavioral and emotional problem at a high school in Gaza to determine if there is improvement in behavioral and emotional problems, aggression, and posttraumatic stress disorder. The results will be compared to a control high school with boys who will not be attending mind-body skills groups and who have experienced similar levels of trauma and also have behavioral and emotional problems.
The mind-body skills groups will be held for 2 hours once a week for 10 weeks and then once a month for 10 months. Measures will be taken at baseline, after the 10 week mind-body skills group program and again at 10 month follow-up.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 14 Years 至 17 Years（Child）
- 性别
- Male
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Criteria for eligibility for the study will include having a baseline self-reported score of 18 points or higher on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire which indicates high to very high levels of emotional and behavioral problems
排除标准
- 未提供
研究组 & 干预措施
Mind-Body Skills Groups
Mind-body skills groups will be administered for 2 hours once a week for 10 weeks and then once a month for 10 months.
干预措施: Mind-Body Skills Groups (Behavioral)
Wait List Control
No intervention will be administered. Students will have the opportunity to receive the intervention at the end of the study.
结局指标
主要结局
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
时间窗: Change from Baseline to 10 month follow-up after the program ends
The 25 item Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) measures behavioral and emotional function. These 25 items are divided into 5 subscales: emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity/inattention, peer relationship problems, and prosocial behavior. The SDQ is scored on a 3 point Likert-type scale with the responses "not true, "somewhat true", and "certainly true". Total SDQ scores include all the subscales except the prosocial scale.
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
时间窗: Change from Baseline to the end of the 10 week program (Post)
The 25 item Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) measures behavioral and emotional function. These 25 items are divided into 5 subscales: emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity/inattention, peer relationship problems, and prosocial behavior. The SDQ is scored on a 3 point Likert-type scale with the responses "not true, "somewhat true", and "certainly true". Total SDQ scores include all the subscales except the prosocial scale.
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
时间窗: Change from the end of the 10 week program (Post) to 10 month-follow up
The 25 item Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) measures behavioral and emotional function. These 25 items are divided into 5 subscales: emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity/inattention, peer relationship problems, and prosocial behavior. The SDQ is scored on a 3 point Likert-type scale with the responses "not true, "somewhat true", and "certainly true". Total SDQ scores include all the subscales except the prosocial scale.
次要结局
- The Aggression Questionnaire(Change from Baseline to 10 month follow-up after the program ends)
- PTSD Checklist-5(Change from Baseline to 10 month follow-up after the program ends)
- The Aggression Questionnaire(Change from Baseline to the end of the 10 week program (Post))
- The Aggression Questionnaire(Change from the end of the 10 week program (Post) to 10 month-follow up)
- PTSD Checklist-5(Change from Baseline to the end of the 10 week program (Post))
- PTSD Checklist-5(Change from the end of the 10 week program (Post) to 10 month-follow up)
研究者
James S. Gordon, M.D.
Director
The Center for Mind-Body Medicine