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EMpower Parents: Effectiveness of EMDR Treatment for Parental PTSD Related to Their Child's Medical Condition.

NCT06776744 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2025-01-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if short EMDR treatment offered in two modalities (face to face and remote) is effective in reducing PTSD symptoms and comorbid symptoms for parents of children with diverse chronic and acute medical conditions.

The main question is:

• Is short EMDR treatment effective in reducing PTSD symptoms in parents of children with chronic or acute medical conditions?

Researchers will compare in person and remote EMDR treatment to a waiting list group to see if the treatment is effective.

Participants in the intervention conditions will participate in four in person or remote EMDR sessions, each lasting 1.5 hours, spread across two half-days. Participants in the waiting list condition will receive this treatment after a period of 3 months.

Conditions

  • All Acute Pediatric Conditions
  • All Chronic Pediatric Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) treatment. EMDR is one of the first-choice evidence based treatments for PTSD. During an EMDR session, the traumatic memory is brought to the surface including associated images, thoughts, feelings and body sensations, while simultaneously focusing on an external distracting stimulus (e.g., lateral eye movements).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Academisch Medisch Centrum - Universiteit van Amsterdam (AMC-UvA)

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lotte Haverman, Dr. · Amsterdam UMC

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-01-31
Primary Completion
2026-04-30
Completion
2026-04-30

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