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Written Exposure Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

NCT01800773 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 192

Last updated 2019-01-15

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Summary

Although evidence-based treatments for PTSD exist, a significant minority of individuals do not benefit from these treatments and many individuals to not seek treatment, citing barriers such as time commitment and expense of treatment. The goal of the proposed study is to establish an alternative PTSD treatment that is efficacious and efficient.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Written Exposure Therapy

Written exposure therapy is a 5 session, weekly treatment in which individuals write about their trauma event in a specified manner.

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive Processing Therapy

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is an evidence-based treatment for PTSD. CPT consists of 12, weekly sessions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Boston University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Denise M. Sloan, Ph.D. · Boston University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-03-09
Primary Completion
2018-01-10
Completion
2018-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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