Mechanisms Of Recovery & Empowerment for displaced popuations following trauma focussed therapy.

Predictors of change during Narrative Exposure Therapy for displaced populations: A repeated measures design.

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON24932

Enrollment

Registered

2018-07-11

Start date

2018-02-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-02-28

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Conditions

Refugees, victims of human trafficking, post-traumatic stress disorder, Narrative Exposure Therapy, prognosis.

Interventions

Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET)

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Patients will be included in the study if they are refugees, asylum seekers, or victims of human trafficking aged 18 years or older; if they have PTSD as a primary diagnosis; if individual Trauma Focussed Therapy in an outpatient setting has been indicated for them; and if they are cognitively able to give informed consent to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Patients will be excluded from the study if they display signs of an acute crisis, such as, acute suicidality or acute severe psychosis; or suffer from persistent substance abuse.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
- Emotion regulation measured by the DERS-18: Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-Short Version. - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder measured by PCL-5: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 and PCPTSD: Primary Care Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. - Perceived daily stress measured by the PSS: Perceived Stress Scale. - Mood measured by using a validated single item measure (‘In the last week I felt’). This mood item will be scored on a VAS-scale ranging from 0 (sad) to 100 (happy).	—

Measure

Time frame

- Emotion regulation measured by the DERS-18: Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-Short Version. - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder measured by PCL-5: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 and PCPTSD: Primary Care Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. - Perceived daily stress measured by the PSS: Perceived Stress Scale. - Mood measured by using a validated single item measure (‘In the last week I felt’). This mood item will be scored on a VAS-scale ranging from 0 (sad) to 100 (happy).

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
QPR-15: Questionnaire on Process of Recovery-Short Version.	—

Contacts

Public ContactJetske Heemstra, van

j.van.heemstra@equatorfoundation.nl0031 6 24189873

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)