Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET) for Migraine
Key facts
- Who runs it
- University of Utah
- Where
- Salt Lake City, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Status
- Terminated
- People taking part
- 20 people enrolled
- Started
- 4 Mar 2023
- Ended
- 4 Mar 2024
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy
- Record updated
- 6 December 2024
- Why it stopped
- Study was modified and a new entry in ClinicalTrials.gov was created
Who can take part
- Age
- 18 years to 80 years
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Adults of all genders, ages 18-80
- A diagnosis of either episodic or chronic migraine (with or without aura) by a licensed neurologist
- A migraine disability assessment scores higher than 6
- A stable medication regimen for a minimum of 3 months
- Must have had migraines for at least 1 year
- Must have a minimum of 4 migraine days per month
Who cannot take part
- A diagnosis of medication overuse headaches
- Changes in migraine medication in the past 3 months
- Serious psychiatric disorders (e.g., schizophrenia or bipolar disorder) uncontrolled with medications
- Untreated alcohol or substance use disorder
- Substantial cognitive impairment
- Failure to complete at least 80% of the daily diaries during the baseline 30-day diary assessment
- Active suicidal ideation
- Risk of violent behavior
- Enrollment in another treatment study
- Current involvement in health-related litigation or disability application
- Inability to use a computer and/or smartphone
- limited access to the internet
- Inability to communicate in English
Where in United States
- Dan KaufmannSalt Lake City, United States
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The goal of this feasibility study is to test the effect of a new behavioral intervention, Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), as a possible new treatment for people living with migraine.
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The main questions it aims to answer are:
* Can EAET lower the frequency and severity of migraine attacks? * What are the elements that can explain EAET's effect?
Requirements from Participants:
* Participants will engage in 8 weekly online sessions via zoom (sessions are 2 hours long). Each session has a lecture, in-class exercises, discussion, and weekly assignments. * Each participant is required to fill out questionnaires before the first session, after the last session of the treatment, and at a 3-month follow-up after treatment.
Participants will benefit from a new and promising intervention that can significantly help with their migraines at no cost.
The group in the trial
- Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET)Treatment being tested
In this experimental arm, participants are required to attend 8 online sessions, and fill out questionnaires before treatment, immediately after treatment, and at a 3-month follow-up.
Treatment: Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy
Data and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Evaluation of Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET) As a Novel Migraine Treatment
- Record updated
- 6 December 2024