NCT04328935

Written Exposure Therapy for Post-traumatic Stress Syndrome

A Feasibility Study for Written Exposure Therapy for Patients With Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in a Regular Health Care Setting

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Karolinska Institutet · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To investigate if written exposure therapy is feasible for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder

Detailed description

A non-inferiority trial in JAMA Psychiatry showed that written exposure therapy (WET) was non-inferior to a gold standard CBT treatment. In comparison to other trauma-focused CBT protocols, WET generally demands less therapist-time, and specifically, less than half compared to CBT that consists of 12 weekly sessions á 60 minutes. The aim of this study is to translate and replicate these results in a Swedish context. This first step is a small feasibility trial which will guide a subsequent large-scale trial.

Conditions

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	WET	The manual is based on established CBT interventions in trauma such as exposure. In short, the treatment is that the participant should be able to approach their intrusive memories and by doing this repeatedly, the memory will give rise to less discomfort.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-10-27
• Primary completion: 2021-04-27
• Completion: 2022-04-27
• First posted: 2020-04-01
• Last updated: 2021-06-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden