NCT01120067

Intensive Treatment for Chronic Pain and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Intensive Treatment of Chronic Pain and PTSD for OEF/OIF Veterans

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 23 (actual)
• Sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is investigating the efficacy of an intensive (3 week) integrated treatment for Veterans with both pain and PTSD.

Detailed description

Objectives: The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of an intensive integrated treatment for Veterans with comorbid chronic pain and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A secondary objective is to examine potential mechanisms of action that might account for improvements in pain or PTSD. Third, exploratory analyses will be conducted to assess the relationship between participation in treatment and cognitive functioning. It is hypothesized that 1) participants receiving the intensive treatment (PT) will report significantly greater decreases in symptoms of pain and PTSD from pre-treatment to post-treatment when compared to participants randomized to a standard care (SC) condition, and 2) participants receiving PT will show greater maintenance of change on measures of pain and PTSD at 3 months following the completion of treatment when compared to participants randomized to the SC condition.

Conditions

• Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Intensive Treatment	Participants randomized to the Intensive Treatment condition will attend 6 bi-weekly outpatient therapy sessions conducted in an individual format of 90 minutes in duration.
BEHAVIORAL	Treatment as Usual	Treatment as Usual.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-08-01
• Primary completion: 2015-08-01
• Completion: 2016-12-29
• First posted: 2010-05-10
• Last updated: 2017-04-12
• Results posted: 2016-12-16

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States