Mind Body and Integrative Health Treatment Approaches – CCTD (90)
This panel reviews patient- centered behavioral interventions proposing complementary and integrative health approaches with physical and/or psychological therapeutic inputs (often called mind and body interventions) for disease management/treatment and to improve recovery and outcomes. These applications include treatment approaches that can be used by individuals to help treat, or self-manage various conditions, or that can be complementary to conventional health care. Patient-centered applications proposing nonpharmacologic treatment approaches to symptom management (e.g., chronic pain, mild depression, anxiety) are included. Patient-centered applications that include the treatment of symptoms such as sleep disorders or disturbances, chronic stress, post-traumatic stress (disorder), obesity, and acute pain conditions are also included. Applications proposing reductions or deprescribing of inappropriate use of medications or other substances (e.g., drugs of abuse or medications that are contraindicated in specific patient populations) are included. All studies are in human populations at the individual level. Applications that focus on biological mechanisms at the systems biological, cellular or molecular level are reviewed elsewhere.
Review Dates
A roster for the panel will be posted here, at least 30 days prior to the review meeting
Topics
- Applications proposing complementary or integrative approaches with physical and/or psychological therapeutic inputs could include:
- Physical treatment approaches such as spinal manipulation or mobilization, massage, tai chi, qi gong, yoga, acupuncture;
- Psychological treatment approaches such as hypnosis, guided imagery, breathing exercises, progressive relaxation, meditation, biofeedback, mindfulness techniques, music or other art-based therapies;
- Multi-component treatment interventions such as naturopathic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, chiropractic care; or integrated approaches to care in which a complementary health approach is used in combination with standard care (e.g., mindfulness or yoga as augmentation to conventional medications); or
- Multilevel treatment interventions where at least one level of intervention includes a mind and body intervention;
- Complementary or integrative approaches for the treatment of HIV, or comorbidities, coinfections and complications from HIV.
