A Pilot Test of the Relaxation Response Resiliency Program (3RP) in Spanish Speaking World Trade Center Survivors With Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)



Status:Completed
Conditions:Psychiatric, Psychiatric
Therapuetic Areas:Psychiatry / Psychology
Healthy:No
Age Range:18 - Any
Updated:10/20/2017
Start Date:March 1, 2016
End Date:October 11, 2017

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Trial Summary
Trial Overview
Inclusion Criteria
The objective of this protocol is to test the feasibility and acceptability of the Relaxation
Response Resiliency Program (3RP), a psychotherapy treatment providing a variety of mind body
skills and interventions to decrease medical and mental health symptoms and build resilience,
in Spanish-speaking World Trade Center (WTC) survivors, and to examine its clinical
effectiveness to reduce Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, and lower
respiratory symptoms (LRS) and improve psychosocial functioning.


Inclusion Criteria:

- score > or = 44 on the PTSD Checklist PCL, considered the broad definition of PTSD
syndrome71

- report at least one LRS symptoms (i.e., shortness of breath, wheezing, dyspnea or
cough).

- Spanish Speaking

Exclusion Criteria:

- regular practice of eliciting relaxation response (i.e., meditation, yoga) in the past
6 months,

- serious unmanaged mental illness including bipolar disorder, psychosis, and active
substance misuse disorders;

- inability to participate in consecutive sessions over 3-month period.
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Principal Investigator: Lucia Ferri, MD
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