NCT05798221Completed
Complementary Self-help Strategies for Patients With Post-COVID-19 Syndrome
Complementary Self-help Strategies for Patients With Post-COVID-19 Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 19 Nov 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Individuals affected by SARS-CoV-2 infection may subsequently be affected by the so-called post-COVID syndrome. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effects of a multimodal 10-week group program consisting of self-help strategies based on complementary medicine approaches of TEM (Traditional European Medicine), TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), and TIM (Traditional Indian Medicine) in addition to treatment as usual versus treatment as usual alone (no active study intervention/waiting list). Endpoints of the study include subjective quantitative and qualitative as well as objective (physician-reported) variables.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 86 (actual)
- First submitted
- 2 Apr 2023
- Start date
- 25 Apr 2023
- Primary completion date
- 25 Mar 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Universität Duisburg-Essen
- Diseases
- Long COVID and ME/CFS
- NCT number
- NCT05798221
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 86
- From 25 Apr 2023 to the primary completion date, 25 Mar 2025
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Patients who were treated with invasive ventilation during active SARS-CoV-2 infection
Other illness
- Severe comorbid mental illness (e.g. addiction diagnosis, major depression) or other severe comorbid somatic illness (e.g. cancer without remission, severe pre-existing cardiovascular disease, insufficiency of other organs such as kidney or liver, acute febrile infection, other severe neurologic disease)
Other
- Pregnancy or lactation
- Current pension application
- Simultaneous participation in other clinical/interventional trials
Who the study is looking for
- Age of 18 years and older
- Confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis by: 1. polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test or 2. physician's letter/medical certificate/quarantine order due to ICD-10-GM U07.1 G or ICD-10-GM U09.9 G
- Sequelae symptoms, new symptoms/disabilities, or worsening of a pre-existing medical condition that occurred in the first 3 months after confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection and persisted for more than 2 months
- At least 8 points (moderate symptom burden) out of a possible 32 points on the Somatic Symptom Scale-8 (SSS-8)
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Integrative Medicine and Planetary Health, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Essen | Germany | Unknown status |
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