NCT05674591

Cognitive Processing Therapy in Syrian Women Exposed to IPV

Cognitive Processing Therapy for the Treatment of Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation in Syrian Females Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: British University In Egypt · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 16 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims to explore the efficacy of cognitive processing therapy (CPT) in treating depression, anxiety, PTSD, and difficulties with emotion regulation in Syrian females who have suffered intimate partner violence (IPV). Clinicians will conduct interviews with women and request that they complete the CAPS, Beck Depression Inventory II, Beck Anxiety Inventory, and DERS during pretreatment, posttreatment, and at the 12-month follow-up

Detailed description

This study aims to explore the efficacy of cognitive processing therapy (CPT) in treating depression, anxiety, PTSD, and difficulties with emotion regulation in Syrian females who have suffered intimate partner violence (IPV). Clinicians will conduct interviews with women and request that they complete the CAPS, Beck Depression Inventory II, Beck Anxiety Inventory, and DERS during pretreatment, posttreatment, and at the 12-month follow-up. Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) may have a substantial therapeutic benefit in the treatment of depression, anxiety, PTSD, and difficulties in emotion regulation among Syrian females who have suffered intimate partner violence.

Conditions

• Depression
• Anxiety
• PTSD

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)	The CPT therapist will teach the patient about PTSD, depression, and anxiety, and outline the treatment regimen and rationale for its effectiveness. In the initial sessions, women will be asked to express their impact statements on the intimate partner violence to which they had been subjected. Women will be taught how to differentiate between events, thoughts, and emotions, as well as their interrelationships. Thoughts of self-blame and other misconceptions of the situation will be addressed using Socratic questioning. Women will be instructed on how to detect and counteract negative thoughts, as well as how to communicate more effectively. Women will be encouraged to evaluate negative thinking relating to five themes: safety, trust, power/control, self-esteem, and intimacy. During the final sessions, their impact statements on the violence to which they had been subjected will be altered to include emotional and cognitive insights obtained during the CPT.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-01-05
• Primary completion: 2022-12-01
• Completion: 2022-12-01
• First posted: 2023-01-06
• Last updated: 2023-01-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt