NCT03975075

Biofeedback Treatment of Anxiety Associated With Chronic Spinal Cord Injury

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Craig Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research is to test the feasibility of an intervention using biofeedback to treat stress and anxiety among individuals with tetraplegia. The expected duration of participation in this study is about 5 hours over the course of about 5 weeks. Participants will be randomly assigned to either a biofeedback training intervention or a control group. After completing questionnaires, participants will undergo physiological monitoring for the purpose of measuring heart rate and breathing. Those assigned to the biofeedback group will undergo 20 minutes of physiological monitoring while also participating in biofeedback training twice a week for 4 weeks (8 sessions) from home. Those assigned to the control group will undergo 20 minutes of physiological monitoring twice a week for 4 weeks (8 sessions) from home, but will not receive biofeedback training. Each session is expected to last 30 minutes to allow for completion of questionnaires over the the phone prior to and following each training session. It is hypothesized that the biofeedback intervention will demonstrate high feasibility and compared to those in the control group, participants who receive the biofeedback intervention will attain greater pre-post reductions in both physiological and self-reported stress.

Conditions

• Spinal Cord Injuries
• Anxiety
• Stress
• Tetraplegia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Psychophysiological monitoring	30 minutes of one channel (ECG) physiological monitoring with Mindfield eSense Pulse.
BEHAVIORAL	Biofeedback training	Traditional resonance frequency training with the Mindfield eSense Pulse smartphone application. Using visual feedback of real time parameters of HRV and the use of controlled breathing, participants are trained to reach a relaxed state.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-01
• Primary completion: 2023-01-31
• Completion: 2023-01-31
• First posted: 2019-06-05
• Last updated: 2024-08-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States