MedTrace Logo

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Treating Recently Abused Women With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

NCT00602069 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2013-06-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study will evaluate the effectiveness of a brief cognitive behavioral treatment, Helping to Overcome PTSD through Empowerment, in treating abused women with post-traumatic stress disorder who are living in shelters.

Conditions

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Battered Women

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Helping to Overcome PTSD through Empowerment (HOPE)

HOPE includes a maximum of 16 sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy. The sessions will emphasize stabilization and empowerment, both of which are identified as important goals by the theoretical and empirical literature on abused women and PTSD.

BEHAVIORAL

Treatment as usual

Treatment as usual includes standard shelter services for abused women.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Summa Health System

    collaborator OTHER

  • Butler Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • The University of Akron

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dawn M. Johnson, PhD · Summa Health System

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-05-31
Primary Completion
2011-05-31
Completion
2011-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

More Related Trials

Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT00602069 on ClinicalTrials.gov