NCT02506595

A Trial of Treatment for Trauma-Related Nightmares in Active Duty Military Personnel

A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Treatment for Trauma-Related Nightmares Compared to Waitlist Control in Active Duty Military Personnel

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 47 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to obtain preliminary data of the efficacy of Exposure, Relaxation, and Rescripting Therapy for nightmares among active duty military personnel.

Detailed description

This will be a pilot randomized controlled trial to compare the effects of Exposure, Relaxation, and Rescripting Therapy for military populations (ERRT-M) among active duty service members. Participants will be randomized to 5 sessions of ERRT-M (n = 20 ) or to a 5-week waitlist control group (WL; n = 20). Participants will complete all interviews and self-report measures 1 weeks following treatment or the WL condition and 1 month after completing treatment.

Conditions

• Nightmares

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	ERRT-M for Nightmares	Exposure, Relaxation, and Rescripting Therapy Military version (ERRT-M) - Five 60-90 minute sessions administered once weekly. ERRT-M includes psychoeducation, sleep habit modification, relaxation training, written exposure to and rescription of nightmare content and imagery rehearsal of rescripted dream content.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-02-01
• Primary completion: 2017-06-01
• Completion: 2017-06-01
• First posted: 2015-07-23
• Last updated: 2019-04-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States