CAM in Veterans with Gulf War Illnesses

患有海湾战争疾病的退伍军人中的 CAM

• 批准号: 8891930
• 负责人: Matthew J. Reinhard
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: U.S. DEPT/VETS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8891930
• 关键词: Acupuncture Therapy; Address; Caring; Chronic; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; Cognitive; Cognitive deficits; Collection; Combined Modality Therapy; Complement; Complementary Medicine; Data; Ear Acupuncture; Equipment and supply inventories; Fatigue; Goals; Gulf War; Health; Health education; High Prevalence; Intervention; Interview; Lead; Maintenance; Measures; Medical; Meditation; Methods; Moods; Musculoskeletal; Outcome; Outcome Study; Pain; Perception; Personal Satisfaction; Persons; Physical Function; Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials; Reporting; Research Personnel; Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire; Skin; Sleep; Sleep disturbances; Stress; Symptoms; System; Testing; Time; Treadmill Tests; Veterans; Yoga; actigraphy; arm; base; cohort; efficacy testing; empowered; experience; functional disability; improved; improved functioning; indexing; neuropsychological; physical conditioning; preference; primary outcome; prospective; public health relevance; respiratory; secondary outcome; tv watching

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of the proposed study is to conduct the first adequately powered prospective randomized controlled clinical trial (RCT) to determine whether combined auricular acupuncture and iRest(R) Yoga Nidra will lead to improved health-related functioning, reduced sleep disturbance and perceived stress in Gulf War-deployed Veterans with Gulf War Veterans' illnesses (GWVIs) compared to Gulf War Health Education. Using a multi-method approach, our interdisciplinary team of clinicians and researchers will test the primary hypothesis that, in Gulf War-deployed Veterans who reported at least 2 of 3 symptom types (fatigue, pain and mood/cognitive) for more than 6 months and at the time of screening, the complementary and alternative CAM treatment (combined auricular acupuncture and iRest(R) Yoga Nidra) will lead to greater improvements in physical health functioning, reductions in pain, fatigue, cognitive deficits and sleep disturbance than Gulf War Health Education. This study will also enhance our understanding of the real-world effects of CAM for these Veterans through the collection and analysis of in-depth interviews from Veterans. If successful, the results of this study would provide a scientific basis to expand the complementary treatments available to the significant number of Gulf War-deployed Veterans who suffer from GWVIs and for whom current medical treatments alone are not adequate. While the present study is targeted at the Gulf War cohort, results could also have significant impact on treatment for Veterans from all other eras as well.

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