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Behavioral Intervention

Written Exposure Therapy for Imaginal Exposure Therapy

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Waitlist Available
Research Sponsored by Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial
Must have
Be older than 18 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up change in total score from baseline to 3-months post treatment (approximately 14-18 weeks).
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Study Summary

This trial will compare two different versions of an online exposure therapy program for treating PTSD. One version will have participants recount their trauma experiences in writing, while the other will have them recount them verbally. Treatment will last 4-8 sessions, depending on the participant's rate of recovery.

Eligible Conditions
  • Written Exposure Therapy
  • Imaginal Exposure Therapy

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~change in total score from baseline to 3-months post treatment (approximately 14-18 weeks).
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and change in total score from baseline to 3-months post treatment (approximately 14-18 weeks). for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary outcome measures
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder CheckList for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual - 5 (PCL-5; Weathers, et al., 2013)
Secondary outcome measures
Brief version of the difficulties in emotion regulation scale (DERS-16; Bjureberg et al,. 2016)
Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9; Kroenke, Spitzer, & Williams, 2001).
Work and Social Adjustment Scale (WSAS; Mundt et al., 2002)

Trial Design

2Treatment groups
Active Control
Group I: Written Exposure TherapyActive Control1 Intervention
Written exposure therapy (Sloan et al., 2012) is a brief evidence-based treatment for PTSD (US Dept. of VA & DoD, 2017), wherein patients are asked to write about their trauma memories for 30 minutes, with therapist instruction and feedback before and after each writing exercise.
Group II: Imaginal Exposure TherapyActive Control1 Intervention
Imaginal exposure therapy will involve verbal recounting of trauma memories for 30 minutes with therapist instruction and feedback before and after each recounting exercise.

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Palo Alto Veterans Institute for ResearchLead Sponsor
52 Previous Clinical Trials
7,775 Total Patients Enrolled

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Recent research and studies
clinicaltrials.govStudy
Written Versus Verbal Brief Cognitive Behavioral Exposure Therapy
Carmen McLean 2020. "Written Versus Verbal Brief Cognitive Behavioral Exposure Therapy". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04000217.
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