NCT00891098

Comparing Imaginal Exposure and Imagery Rescripting in Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Comparing Imaginal Exposure (IE) and Imagery Rescripting and Reprocessing Therapy (IRRT) in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 65 (actual)
• Sponsor: Modum Bad · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The outcome of trauma treatment (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD) may be influenced by which emotions that are predominant among current symptoms, e.g. fear, anger, guilt, shame. Different treatment procedures for processing traumatic memories may resolve different emotions. This study compares two different treatment procedures of working with trauma memories in PTSD treatment (namely, Imaginal Exposure and Imagery Rescripting) in order to test this.

Detailed description

The main objectives of this study are: 1. To assess the relative efficacy of the two procedures in inpatient treatment for PTSD 2. To assess whether the predominant emotions in the traumatic memories moderate the outcome of the different procedures 3. To assess whether theory-derived constructs mediate outcome and whether the mediating relationships are different in the two treatments 4. To provide a theoretical account of the two models 5. To psychometrically evaluate 3 new measures

Conditions

• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Imaginal exposure	7 individual sessions of imaginal exposure of trauma memories according to the prolonged exposure treatment manual
BEHAVIORAL	Imagery rescripting	7 individual sessions of imagery rescripting of trauma memories according to the imagery rescripting and reprocessing therapy manual

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-11-01
• Primary completion: 2012-11-01
• Completion: 2012-11-01
• First posted: 2009-05-01
• Last updated: 2013-06-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway