NCT06143982

Effectiveness of a Brief Intensive Trauma Treatment for Adolescents With (s)PTSD: a Multi-center RCT

Effectiveness of a Brief Intensive Trauma Treatment for Adolescents With (Subclinical) PTSD: a Multi-center Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Academisch Medisch Centrum - Universiteit van Amsterdam (AMC-UvA) · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The primary objective of this study is to examine the effectiveness of a Brief Intensive Trauma Treatment (BITT) for adolescents with (s)PTSD.

Detailed description

This study is a multi-center, single-blinded RCT. Adolescents (12-18 years old) with (s)PTSD will be randomly allocated by an independent researcher to the BITT (n=50) versus a waitlist control group (WLCG; n=50), stratified by center. Measurements are done at comparable time intervals for both groups: at pre-treatment (T0), directly after BITT or WLCG (T1) and at 3 (T2), 6 (T3) and 9 (T4) months follow-up. The WLCG receives BITT after the 3 months follow-up.

Conditions

• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Brief Intensive Trauma Treatment	BITT is an outpatient, intensive, one-week individual trauma therapy program. BITT is based on well-established protocols, consisting of two 90-minutes trauma therapy sessions a day (trauma exposure in the morning and EMDR in the afternoon), two psychomotor therapy sessions a day (1x60 minutes, 1x45 minutes), one 90-minutes psycho-education and social support skill training for parents a day, and a 90-minutes family therapy session at the end of the week (sharing the trauma narrative).

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-10-05
• Primary completion: 2025-01-01
• Completion: 2026-02-01
• First posted: 2023-11-22
• Last updated: 2023-11-22

Locations

3 sites across 2 countries: Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba , Netherlands