NCT05625126

Evaluation of a Rumination Intervention for Individuals With PTSD: A Case Series

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 16 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Oxford · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

After a traumatic event, it is common for thoughts to run through our minds over and over again. Typically, these include unanswerable questions like "why did this happen to me?", "what if I had done something differently?" Dwelling or ruminating on the past like this is often unhelpful and research has shown that it increases our chances of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a debilitating stress reaction. Once PTSD is in place, research shows that ruminating keeps the disorder going. It is unknown to what extent targeting rumination with an intervention to reduce its recurrence may help to alleviate PTSD symptoms. While rumination interventions using evidence-based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) have shown highly promising results in depression and anxiety research, no previous study has evaluated a stand-alone rumination intervention for individuals with PTSD. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of a one-session online Rumination Intervention designed to reduce rumination in a small sample of 14 individuals who are currently awaiting treatment for PTSD in a British national mental health (NHS) service. The study will explore whether the Rumination Intervention reduces PTSD-related rumination, as well as PTSD and depression symptoms. It will also investigate how feasible and acceptable the intervention is for participants. If the findings are promising, the intervention could be tested in a larger clinical study in the future. Results may help inform online interventions for PTSD.

Detailed description

Please note: This study adopts a within and between-subjects concurrent multiple baseline A-B design will be used for this study. Due to the format of a case series, there will be no control group and no blinding. Participants will be compared to their own baseline (within) and between groups (delayed baseline for arm 2), meaning that individuals with a 3-week baseline will be compared to individuals with a 5-week baseline. This will be an experimental framework.

Conditions

• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Rumination - Thoughts

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Rumination Intervention for individuals with PTSD	The intervention utilises evidence-based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-12-07
• Primary completion: 2023-03-31
• Completion: 2023-06-30
• First posted: 2022-11-22
• Last updated: 2023-04-04

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United Kingdom