To see if the Narrative Therapy approach is feasible for women who have experienced violence and its consequences from their spouses and are currently living in shelter homes.

Feasibility of Narrative Exposure Therapy for IPV Related Trauma among Women in a Short Stay Shelter Home

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Phase 1

Study type

Interventional

Source

CTRI

Registry ID

CTRI/2019/12/022369

Enrollment

Registered

2019-12-13

Start date

Unknown

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2023-05-29

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Intervention1: Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET): Narrative exposure therapy (NET) is an evidenceâ??based, shortterm treatment developed by Schauer, Neuner and Elbert in 2002 for the purpose of treatme

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Women who have experienced IPV from their married partner Women above 18 years of age Women with working knowledge of Kannada or English Women who score above the cut off on Kesslerâ??s scale for psychological distress Women who give written informed consent Women who have stayed at the shelter home for at least one week.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Women with psychotic disorders as screened on Modified MINI Women with clinical evidence of mental retardation Women with serious physical illnesses such as HIV/AIDS Women who are found to be severely distressed on the Kesslerâ??s scale for psychological distress Women should not have undergone structured psychotherapy in the last 1 year

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Reducing post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSD Checklist 5 scores), depressive symptoms (Patient Health Questionnaire 9 scores) and trauma related anger (Trauma Related Anger Scale score). Improving trauma related cognitive processing(Cognitive Processing of Trauma Scale scores) , trauma coping self-efficacy(Trauma Coping Self Efficacy Scale scores) and psychological well being (Psychological Well-Being Scale scores)Timepoint: Pre-intervention assessment, post-intervention assessment immediately after the completion of 8-10 sessions of NET and assessments at 1 month follow up	—

Measure

Time frame

Reducing post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSD Checklist 5 scores), depressive symptoms (Patient Health Questionnaire 9 scores) and trauma related anger (Trauma Related Anger Scale score). Improving trauma related cognitive processing(Cognitive Processing of Trauma Scale scores) , trauma coping self-efficacy(Trauma Coping Self Efficacy Scale scores) and psychological well being (Psychological Well-Being Scale scores)Timepoint: Pre-intervention assessment, post-intervention assessment immediately after the completion of 8-10 sessions of NET and assessments at 1 month follow up

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
To examine the factors and processes perceived to be therapeutic by the clients.Timepoint: post-intervention immediately after the completion of 8-10 sessions of NET	—

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactL N Suman

National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS)

elenes@nimhans.ac.in080-26995189

Outcome results