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Reducing Alcohol Use & Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) With Cognitive Restructuring & Experiential Acceptance

NCT00760994 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2020-08-10

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether an experiential acceptance therapy intervention is effective in the treatment of alcohol dependency and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in individuals who suffer from PTSD.

Conditions

  • Alcoholism
  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Experiential acceptance

The experiential acceptance coping condition will focus on changing one's relationship to one's internal events by learning to remain in contact with negative and positive thoughts and feelings and cravings as they are, without defense or judgment or attempting to cling to them (Eifert \& Forsyth, 2005; Hayes, Strosahl, \& Wilson, 1999; Kadden et al., 1992; Levitt, Brown, Orsillo, \& Barlow, 2004).

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive restructuring

The cognitive restructuring coping condition will focus on how to change the content and frequency of internal events by changing one's thinking patterns (Kadden et al., 1992).

OTHER

No-intervention control: Nutrition information

The no-intervention condition will be taught the plate method, a nutritional servings guideline, which will have no content related to AUD or PTSD, in order to control for time and contact with a research assistant.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

    collaborator NIH

  • VA Puget Sound Health Care System

    collaborator FED

  • University of Washington

    collaborator OTHER

  • Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tracy L Simpson, Ph.D. · VA Puget Sound Health Care System

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-01-31
Primary Completion
2012-08-31
Completion
2012-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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