NCT00184145

EMDR in the Treatment of Specific Phobia.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) in the Treatment of Specific Phobia. A Randomised Controlled Trial.

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose for this study is to determine whether EMDR is effective in the treatment of specific (animal) phobia.

Detailed description

Aims: To test the hypothesis that one session EMDR is more effective for the treatment of specific (animal) phobia than relaxation immediately after treatment and at follow-up. Secondly to test whether an additional one-session exposure therapy offered to both treatment groups (EMDR patients and relaxation patients) improves outcome in the EMDR-group and results in equal outcome for both treatment groups.

Conditions

• Specific Phobia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)	Psychotherapy which is approved for PTSD.
OTHER	Exposure therapy	All participants in the study received exposure therapy som second treatment. Exposure therapy is the therapy of choice for animal phobia.

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-06-01
• Primary completion: 2004-09-01
• Completion: 2004-09-01
• First posted: 2005-09-16
• Last updated: 2017-02-28