Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00896844
A Trial on the Effect of Emotional Disclosure of Traumatic Life Events on Physical Health
A Randomised Controlled Trial on the Effect of Emotional Disclosure of Traumatic Life Events on Physical Health
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 100 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University Hospital Birmingham · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
This is a randomized, controlled trial on the effect of emotional disclosure of traumatic life events on physical health. The hypothesis is that expression of emotions could possibly improve physical health.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | emotional disclosure | writing about emotional events from the past |
| BEHAVIORAL | placebo writing | writing about how they spent their time the previous day |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2001-09-01
- Primary completion
- 2004-05-01
- Completion
- 2004-05-01
- First posted
- 2009-05-12
- Last updated
- 2009-05-12
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00896844. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.