Creating a Healthy L.I.F.E: Lifestyle Interventions For Epilepsy

Description

A prospective controlled, randomized study to examine the effects of behavioral and wellness-based interventions on seizure frequency for adult patients with medication resistant epilepsy who are still experiencing 1 or more seizures per month.

Conditions

Lifestyle

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

A prospective controlled, randomized study to examine the effects of behavioral and wellness-based interventions on seizure frequency for adult patients with medication resistant epilepsy who are still experiencing 1 or more seizures per month.

Creating a Healthy L.I.F.E: Lifestyle Interventions For Epilepsy

Creating a Healthy L.I.F.E: Lifestyle Interventions For Epilepsy

Condition
Lifestyle
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Cleveland

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Adult (ages 18-75) patients of the Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center with a confirmed diagnosis of epilepsy
  • * Ability to independently provide informed consent
  • * At the time of enrollment, patients must have had at least 1 seizure within the past 30 days
  • * No anticipated anti-seizure medication adjustments
  • * Internet access and the ability to participate in online video streaming
  • * Reading abilities at or above 8th grade level as determined by the Wide Range Achievement Test- 4th Edition (WRAT-4) Reading subtest
  • * Willing and able to participate in any of the assigned interventions which may include yoga or music therapy
  • * Patients with a history of non-epileptic or psychogenic seizures
  • * Any patient that has engaged in yoga or music therapy within the last 6 months
  • * Currently enrolled in another interventional study for epilepsy at the time of enrollment.
  • * Anticipated or scheduled epilepsy surgery within 6 months
  • * Pending litigation related to the cause of epilepsy or current application for long term disability
  • * Participants with a diagnosed, symptomatic, chronic illness (i.e., significant psychiatric concerns, liver, gastrointestinal, respiratory, renal, cardiac, etc.) who, based on primary investigator review, will not be able to participate in the study safely or effectively.
  • * Undergoing intensive medical treatment for serious or life-threatening illness (e.g., chemotherapy, etc.) that would impact study participation.
  • * Currently pregnant or less than 6 weeks postpartum
  • * Significant hearing loss
  • * Blindness
  • * Musicogenic epilepsy or seizures

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to 75 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Imad Najm MD,

Imad Najm, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, The Cleveland Clinic

Study Record Dates

2026-06