NCT00329992

Brief Eclectic Psychotherapy for PTSD - a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Zurich · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Participants are randomly assigned to either 16 sessions of Brief Eclectic Psychotherapy (Gersons et al. (2000) Journal Trauma Stress 13: 333-348), comprising psychoeducation, exposure, mementos and writing assignments, domain of meaning and integration, farewell ritual, or a minimal attention control group that will be offered 16 sessions of BEP after a waiting time of four months. Participants in the minimal attention control group receive monthly telephone calls and complete a symptom self monitoring diary (Tarrier, N. et al. (1999) Behavior Therapy 30: 597-605) for three weeks.

Conditions

• Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Brief Eclectic Psychotherapy for PTSD	16 weekly sessions (50min) of Brief Eclectic Psychotherapy for PTSD

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-04-01
• Primary completion: 2009-05-01
• Completion: 2009-12-01
• First posted: 2006-05-25
• Last updated: 2010-01-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland