NCT03788408

Intensive Psychotherapy and Case Management for Karen Refugees in Primary Care

Effects of Intensive Psychotherapy and Case Management for Karen Refugees in Primary Care: A Randomized Control Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 214 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Center for Victims of Torture, United States · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Patients in the IPCM group (n = 112) received intensive psychotherapy and case management, and those in the CAU group (n = 102) received care as usual, including behavioral health referrals and/or brief onsite interventions.

Detailed description

IPCM patients received routine services from both a psychotherapist and separate mental health case manager for one year; duration of each appointment was 45 minutes - 1 hour; frequency of appointments was weekly or every other week, dependent on participant availability. A face-to-face professional interpreter was utilized unless the CVT provider was a native Karen speaker. Participants in the control group received care as usual, without CVT involvement other than administration of the outcome measures. Once randomized, CAU patients could be referred to a full range of outpatient and community-based behavioral health services by their primary care physician.

Conditions

• Delivery of Intensive Behavioral Services to Refugees in Primary Care

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Intensive Psychotherapy and case management for refugee trauma	CVT's approach emphasized active interdisciplinary coordination and a relational focus anchored in cultural humilityX to address survivors' priorities, empower survivors as the primary architects of their healing, and work alongside each survivor to co-construct meaning and behavioral change.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-05-01
• Primary completion: 2018-02-01
• Completion: 2020-07-01
• First posted: 2018-12-27
• Last updated: 2019-07-23