NCT04832815

Equine Human Interaction With Veterans

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: VA Salt Lake City Health Care System · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study has two components. The first component (Aim 1) is a randomized trial of a novel equine therapy intervention that was developed for research purposes. The second component (Aim 2) is an evaluation of outcomes from Veterans participating in an adaptive horsemanship program that is not conducted for research purposes.

Conditions

• PTSD

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Equine Therapy	Aim 1: Six session equine interventions. Intervention will be provided one day per week for four weeks. During the first two weeks, each intervention day with consist of two sessions with a lunch break in between. Weeks four and five consist of one trail riding session per intervention day followed by lunch. Each session will be approximately 1.5 hours in length. Sessions 1-4 will occur at the USU Equine Education Center, and session 5-6 will occur on local trails. Optional transportation for participants will be provided from the VA to the intervention site.
BEHAVIORAL	Therapeutic Horsemanship Program	Aim 2: Therapeutic Horsemanship program utilizes the USU Pathways to Horsemanship model and covers levels of equestrian training from basic groundwork to more advanced riding techniques. Training occurs in a three or six-session format with once weekly sessions over three or six weeks. Mindfulness and mindful self-compassion training may be included.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-12-19
• Primary completion: 2024-12-19
• Completion: 2024-12-19
• First posted: 2021-04-06
• Last updated: 2023-08-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States