NCT00825136

Treatment of Panic Disorder Via Internet With a Wireless Temperature Biofeedback Ring

A Study on Mental Health Care by Using Specific Vital Signs

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: Chimei Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Internet plays a more and more important role in many applications of healthcare. Many researches on the integrations of internet and mental health care have been proposed in recent years. This project aims at the development of an online treatment system which combines the biofeedback therapy and the web technologies to treat the patients suffering from panic disorder with partial response to medications. This project also evaluates the efficacy of a new- designed wireless temperature biofeedback ring.

Detailed description

The participants should be chronic panic patients. They login an web-based server and practice muscle relaxation on-line every day. There will be two two parallel groups: one group practicing muscle relaxation only and the other practicing muscle relaxation with finger surface temperature monitor through a wireless biofeedback ring.

Conditions

• Panic Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	relaxation	Participants were asked to log in the system to keep the muscle relaxation program every day and complete some self-rating scales on browser every week.
BEHAVIORAL	biofeedback (finger temperature biofeedback)	Participants were asked to log in the system to keep the muscle relaxation program plus finger temperature biofeedback every day and complete some self-rating scales on browser every week.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-07-01
• Primary completion: 2009-02-01
• Completion: 2009-05-01
• First posted: 2009-01-19
• Last updated: 2012-08-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan