Randomized controlled trial of cognitive behaviour therapy for reduction of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in emergency service personnel

Randomized controlled trial of cognitive behaviour therapy with and without prolonged exposure for reduction of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms emergency service personnel

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12609000324213

Enrollment

100

Registered

2009-05-21

Start date

2011-06-06

Completion date

2016-10-05

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

This trial will randomly allocate participants with PTSD to either cognitive behaviour therapy with long prolonged exposure (CBT/Long) or cognitive behaviour therapy with brief exposure (CBT/Brief) or Wait-List. After the Wait-List participants were assessed after 3 months, they were randomly assessed to either CBT/Long or CBT/Brief.

Interventions

Cognitive behaviour therapy with long prolonged exposure (CBT/Long) involves 12 once-weekly 90-minute sessions of individual therapy over 12 weeks. The therapy includes 4 sessions of emotion regulation skills training, 6 sessions of cognitive reframing and reliving trauma memories (for 40 minutes duration) and reappraisal of beliefs about traumatic experiences, and 1 sessions of relapse prevention.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Treatment

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 70 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

(1) Active or retired emergency service personnel (including police, firefighter, paramedic), (2) exposure to trauma, (3) meet criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder

Exclusion criteria

Suicidal risk, psychotic, substance dependent

Outcome results