Trauma-Sensitive Yoga for Female Veterans With PTSD Who Experienced Military Sexual Trauma
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga for Female Veterans With PTSD Who Experienced Military Sexual Trauma
NCT ID: NCT02640690 Phase: NA Status: COMPLETED Enrollment: 131 Completion: 2021-09-30
Conditions
Stress Disorders, Post-traumatic
Interventions
Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Intervention (TCTSY), Cognitive Processing Therapy
Summary
In this study, we are evaluating the effectiveness of a yoga intervention to treat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), its associated symptoms of chronic pain and insomnia, and biological and physiological responses to trauma and PTSD in women Veterans who experienced military sexual trauma (MST). If effective, this yoga intervention could reduce PTSD symptoms and chronic pain, improve sleep quality, and decrease the body's automatic "fight or flight" stress response and the damage this stress response causes in the body, including heart disease and diabetes. This intervention could improve these women Veterans' quality of life and social functioning, for example, going to work and having satisfying relationships with family and friends. This study may support an innovative, complementary and alternative PTSD treatment for women Veterans who experienced MST. This new, evidence-based PTSD treatment could supplement current PTSD treatments. Clinical guidelines for this yoga intervention could be implemented nationally in the VA health care system.
Primary Outcome
Clinician Assessed PTSD Checklist-5 (CAPS-5): Change in Mean Total Severity Scores From Baseline to 3-months Post-intervention