Status:
COMPLETED
Respiratory Dysregulation and Breathing Training in Anxious Outpatients
Lead Sponsor:
US Department of Veterans Affairs
Conditions:
Anxiety
Eligibility:
All Genders
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This study will explore respiratory dysregulation in anxious outpatients and examine the effect of breathing training with biofeedback for those anxious patients.
Detailed Description
In clinic testing and outside the clinic testing, we will assess the prevalence of respiratory dysregulation in a sample of 60 non-psychotic, not currently alcohol or drug abusing veteran outpatients ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patients must be rated 2 or more on both Q1 and Q3, but they must not meet the full criteria for PD as determined by the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-IV-Lifetime Version (ADIS).
- In addition, they must be clinically stable enough that changes in the patients' anxiety levels can be attributed to the breathing training rather than to other new treatment initiatives during the training and 1-month evaluation periods or to spontaneous fluctuations in anxiety levels. Thus, potential participants taking SSRIs or other antidepressants, or benzodiazepines have to have been on a stable dose of these medicines for at least the previous two months.
Exclusion
- Potential participants taking short-acting benzodiazepines such as alprazolam in excess of 2.0 mg/day or the equivalent on any day in the past month are excluded, because improvement might show up only in terms of reduction of medication dosage and not on the evaluation measures planned.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 1 2005
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
September 1 2010
Estimated Enrollment :
92 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00108277
Start Date
April 1 2005
End Date
September 1 2010
Last Update
January 19 2015
Active Locations (1)
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VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Palo Alto, California, United States, 94304-1290