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Comparing Imaginal Exposure and Imagery Rescripting in Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

NCT00891098 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 65

Last updated 2013-06-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The outcome of trauma treatment (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD) may be influenced by which emotions that are predominant among current symptoms, e.g. fear, anger, guilt, shame. Different treatment procedures for processing traumatic memories may resolve different emotions. This study compares two different treatment procedures of working with trauma memories in PTSD treatment (namely, Imaginal Exposure and Imagery Rescripting) in order to test this.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Imaginal exposure

7 individual sessions of imaginal exposure of trauma memories according to the prolonged exposure treatment manual

BEHAVIORAL

Imagery rescripting

7 individual sessions of imagery rescripting of trauma memories according to the imagery rescripting and reprocessing therapy manual

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Oslo

    collaborator OTHER

  • Modum Bad

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Asle Hoffart, PhD · Modum Bad and University of Oslo

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-11-30
Primary Completion
2012-11-30
Completion
2012-11-30

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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Diseases

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