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Prevention of Intrusive Memories and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms After Emergency Cesarean Section

NCT02502513 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 56

Last updated 2016-01-28

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Summary

This pilot study aims to investigate the effects of a brief computerized intervention (the computer game "Tetris") on intrusive memories and other posttraumatic stress symptoms following an emergency cesarean section. Patients who have undergone an emergency cesarian section will be randomly allocated to either the brief computerized intervention or usual care within the first 6 hours following the operation. Participants will be followed up at one week and one month. It is predicted that participants given the brief computerized intervention will develop fewer intrusive memories and less severe clinical symptoms than those who are not. This will inform the potential future development of a simple computerized intervention to prevent distressing psychological symptoms after a traumatic event such as an emergency cesarean section.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Brief computerized intervention

Computer game "Tetris"

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Lausanne Hospitals

    collaborator OTHER

  • Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Antje Horsch, DClinPsych · CHUV

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-06-30
Primary Completion
2015-09-30
Completion
2015-10-31

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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