Open-label, randomized, parallel-group controlled clinical trial of massage for treatment of depression in HIV-infected subjects.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The study objectives were to determine whether massage therapy reduces symptoms of depression in subjects with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease.

Design

Subjects were randomized non-blinded into one of three parallel groups to receive Swedish massage or to one of two control groups, touch or no intervention for eight weeks.

Settings/location

The study was conducted at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, which provided primary clinical care in an institutional setting.

Subjects

Study inclusion required being at least 16 years of age, HIV-seropositive, with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder. Subjects had to be on a stable neuropsychiatric, analgesic, and an

SUBMITTER: Poland RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3627430 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature