Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: INTERSTRESS - Interreality in the Management and Treatment of Stress-related Disorders
Brief Summary: Psychological stress occurs when an individual perceives that environmental demands tax or exceed his or her adaptive capacity. In this view, stressful experiences are conceptualized as person-environment transactions, whose result is dependent on the impact of the external stimulus. This is mediated by the person's appraisal of the significance of the stimulus, of the personal, social and cultural resources available and of the efficacy of the coping efforts.

Extreme levels of stress can have a negative influence on one's professional life and can disrupt both the social and personal life of an individual. Stress can also cause different physiological and psychological disorders such as anxiety, chronic headaches, depression, withdrawal symptoms, nausea, phobias, blood pressure problems, heart impairments and others.

Stress Management Therapy can help to overcome counter effects of stress. Usually various techniques are used including relaxation, interaction, biofeedback and Cognitive Behavior Therapy methods. According to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews the best validated approach covering both stress management and stress treatment is the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) approach.

The trouble with stress is that it is very personal. Thus, stress-related disorders depend a great deal on how the person experiencing a stressor is put together -psychologically and physically. So the focus for assessment, prediction and treatment has to be the person's situated experience.

To overcome the above limitations, the INTERSTRESS project suggests the adoption of a new paradigm for e-health - Interreality - that integrates contextualized assessment and treatment within a hybrid environment, bridging physical and virtual world.

From the clinical point of view the INTERSTRESS solution may offer the following innovations to current traditional protocols for stress management:

* Objective and quantitative assessment of user's stress level using biosensors and behavioral analysis;
* Provision of warnings and motivating feedbacks to improve self awareness, compliance and long term outcome;
* Decision Support System (DSS) for treatment planning through data fusion and detection algorithms.


Options:
A: Arm Label: A treatment based on CBT and new technologies; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Coping skills and relaxation training with new technologies | Arm Label: Traditional treatment based on CBT; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Traditional coping skills and relaxation training | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Coping skills and relaxation training with new technologies; Assigned to Arm(s): A treatment based on CBT and new technologies | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Traditional coping skills and relaxation training; Assigned to Arm(s): Traditional treatment based on CBT
B: Arm Label: Sudarshan Kroya Yoga (SKY); Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY) | Arm Label: Health Enhancement Program (HEP); Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Other: Health Enhancement Program | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY); Assigned to Arm(s): Sudarshan Kroya Yoga (SKY) | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Health Enhancement Program; Assigned to Arm(s): Health Enhancement Program (HEP)
C: Arm Label: Transcendental Meditation Intervention Arm; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Transcendental Meditation | Arm Label: Treatment as usual(TAU) Control Arm; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Transcendental Meditation; Assigned to Arm(s): Transcendental Meditation Intervention Arm
D: Arm Label: Passive control group; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Arm Label: Planned intervention - mantra meditation; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Mantra Meditation | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Mantra Meditation; Assigned to Arm(s): Planned intervention - mantra meditation

Answer: A