Effectiveness of binaural auditory beats on stress reduction: a randomized, double-blind and controlled study
- Conditions
- Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
- Registration Number
- KCT0007633
- Lead Sponsor
- Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 90
Stress were defined according to PSS, BDI-II, ISI and STAI-S scores. Those with PSS score 14 or higher were evaluated to be stressful. As stress can induce depressed mood, insomnia and anxiety, we also included the either of the followings in criteria: BDI-II 20-45, STAI-S >=39, ISI 8-21.
Exclusion criteria included; (1) history of neurological deficit (dementia, brain injury, seizure disorder), (2) presence of major psychiatric disorder, (3) treated for pituitary, thyroid, or adrenal disease, (4) being pregnant or lactating, (5) persons with acute stress (death of family, restraint, divorce, separation, debt, delinquency, affair, business failure, serious illness, marriage, etc.) within 4 weeks, (6) receiving cognitive behavioral therapy, biofeedback, neurofeedback, or meditation therapy within 1 year, (7) taking psychiatric drugs, oral steroids or corticosteroids, health functional foods related to stress and sleep improvement within 2 weeks.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional Study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Perceived stress scale ;Beck Depression Inventory ;Insomnia Severity Index ;State-trait anxiety inventory
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index ;Quality of life scale abbreviated version ;Quantitative electroencephalography ;Heart rate variability