NCT01033136

Exposure Therapy For Veterans With PTSD And Panic Attacks

Exposure Therapy for Veterans With PTSD and Panic Attacks

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 93 (actual)
• Sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To evaluate the feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of Multiple Channel Exposure Therapy-Veterans (MCET-V) as a treatment for returning service members with comorbid PTSD and panic disorder (PD). This study will examine the effectiveness of MCET-V by comparing it to Cognitive Processing Therapy, a standard PTSD treatment.

Detailed description

With the increasing number of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) Veterans returning from war-zone areas, many will experience anxiety disorders such as PTSD and comorbid problems. Currently, about one in every six OIF/OEF Veterans experiences PTSD and co-occurring PD. Although effective treatments exist for treating one or the other, we do not yet have treatments that can simultaneously target PTSD and PD. Thus, recent attention has focused on the development of multi-component treatments that simultaneously address PTSD and PD. This study is the first systematic investigation of a time-limited, multi-component cognitive-behavioral treatment for Veterans with specific comorbid anxiety problems. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the multi-component cognitive-behavioral treatment in comparison to standard PTSD treatment in military personnel returning from active duty.

Conditions

• PTSD
• Panic Attacks

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Multiple Channel Exposure Therapy - Veterans	MCET-V offers individual therapy that provides psychoeducation about panic attacks and trauma and involves behavioral and cognitive exposure exercises.
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive Processing Therapy	CPT offers individual therapy that targets trauma and PTSD symptoms via cognitive restructuring.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-09-30
• Completion: 2017-01-01
• First posted: 2009-12-16
• Last updated: 2018-09-17
• Results posted: 2018-07-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States