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Clinical trialNCT06506253RecruitingInterventional

Massage for GAD: Neuroimaging and Clinical Correlates of Response

SponsorUniversity of UtahEnrollment46Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Summary

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This clinical trial will compare the effects of Swedish massage or light touch therapy on brain activity and symptoms of anxiety. This is a randomized research study and subjects will be randomized into one of two study touch intervention groups, and will have an equal chance of being placed in one of the groups: 1. Swedish massage therapy twice per week for 6 weeks. 2. Light touch therapy twice per week for 6 weeks. The Primary Objective is to identify brain networks activated by touch interventions using fMRI brain imaging in subjects with generalized anxiety disorder. Subjects will undergo two fMRI scanning sessions (one before and one after) twice per week for 6 weeks of touch intervention. Subjects will also be asked to complete questionnaires on anxiety, stress and depression.

Investigators

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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • Huntsman Mental Health Institute

    Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

    Brent Kious, MD, PhDEric Garland, PhDMark Rapaport, MDPerry Renshaw, MD, PhDYoung-Hoon Sung, MD
    Recruiting

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
1 May 2024
Primary completion
31 Jul 2026
Completion
31 Aug 2026
Last update posted
9 Sept 2025
Registered enrollment
46
Registry id
NCT06506253

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.