NCT03033602

Brief Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Brief Treatment for PTSD: Enhancing Retention and Engagement

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 169 (actual)
• Sponsor: Boston VA Research Institute, Inc. · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The primary goal of this study is to examine whether a brief treatment approach for PTSD is equally efficacious in the treatment of active duty service members relative to a first line treatment approach that requires much greater treatment dose.

Detailed description

The goal of this randomized clinical trial is to investigate if a brief, written intervention for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Written Exposure Therapy (WET), is non-inferior compared to an evidenced-based behavioral therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy-Cognition only (CPT-C), in the treatment of PTSD in active duty military men and women with a diagnosis of PTSD who have deployed in support of a post-9/11. The primary study outcome is change in symptom severity as assessed by the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-5 edition (CAPS-5). Independent assessors evaluated participants using the CAPS-5 at baseline, 10-, 20-, and 30-week after the first treatment session.

Conditions

• PTSD

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	written exposure therapy	five sessions of writing about traumatic experience.
BEHAVIORAL	CPT, cognitive only	12 sessions of cognitive therapy related to traumatic experience.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-07-20
• Primary completion: 2020-12-15
• Completion: 2021-03-31
• First posted: 2017-01-27
• Last updated: 2023-05-24
• Results posted: 2023-05-24

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States