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BraveMind: Advancing the Virtual Iraq/Afghanistan PTSD Exposure Therapy

NCT02246972 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 15

Last updated 2017-08-09

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Summary

The proposed study is designed to test the clinical efficacy of the BRAVEMIND military sexual trauma (MST) system in an initial feasibility and wait list clinical trial of 45 users.

The following hypotheses will be tested:

1. Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) will be safely deliverable to persons with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to MST as evidenced by treatment dropout rates that are similar to existing Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy delivered in military samples (20-40%) and by the absence of any critical incidents.
2. Participants in the VRET group will show statistically and clinically meaningful reductions in PTSD and depression (PTSD Checklist-Military (PCL-M), Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS), and Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) scores and psychophysiological measures) following treatment.
3. Participants in the VRET group will show statistically and clinically meaningful reductions in PTSD and depression (PCL-M, CAPS, PHQ-9 scores and psychophysiological measures) compared to wait-list results.

Conditions

  • Trauma
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET)

6 to 12 90-minute individual treatment sessions. During VRET sessions patients will wear a head-mounted display with stereo earphones that will provide visual and audio cues consistent with Iraqi or Afghan military scenarios or other base-related scenarios as appropriate for the individual patient.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Southern California

    collaborator OTHER

  • Emory University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Barbara O Rothbaum, PhD/ABPP · Emory University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-05-31
Primary Completion
2017-07-31
Completion
2017-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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