60
Participants
Start Date
August 31, 2011
Primary Completion Date
January 31, 2013
Study Completion Date
July 31, 2013
Mindfulness-based therapy
Mindfulness-based therapy is a four biweekly two-and-a-half-hour psychotherapy tailored for patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. The aims of this therapy are to introduce and practice mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques in coping with drug-resistant epilepsy.
Social support group
Social support group is an attention-placebo with the same contact hours (four bi-weekly two-and-a-half-hour) as the experimental group, but without active treatment input. The aim of the social support group is to provide a supportive group atmosphere for patients with drug-resistant epilepsy.
CUHK Division of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Hong Kong
Chinese University of Hong Kong
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