NCT00956969

Stress Management for Chronic Headaches

Emotional Awareness and Expression Training and Relaxation Training for People With Chronic Headaches

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 147 (actual)
• Sponsor: Wayne State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This interventional, randomized controlled study seeks to test the effects of a novel emotional awareness and expression intervention against relaxation training or no intervention for college students with chronic headaches. These two interventions are conceptually quite distinct, as the former seeks to activate and process anger, whereas the latter, more commonly used technique, seeks to suppress or avoid it.

Conditions

• Headaches

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Anger Awareness and Expression	Teaches patients to recognize, experience, and express emotions
BEHAVIORAL	Relaxation Training	Teaches patients relaxation training

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-09-01
• Primary completion: 2011-05-01
• Completion: 2011-05-01
• First posted: 2009-08-11
• Last updated: 2013-06-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States