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Psychological interventions for familymember and partners of murdered persons

Psychological interventions for familymember and partners of murdered persons - Emotional consequences of murder

Status
Unknown
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
NL-OMON
Registry ID
NL-OMON36277
Enrollment
300
Registered
2011-02-25
Start date
Unknown
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2024-04-29

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Conditions

post traumatische stress stoornissen traumatisch verlies

Interventions

In our research we want to offer participants a combined intervention, consisting of cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR. This is partly based on a cognitive behavioral theory of complicated grief

Sponsors

GGZ Friesland (Leeuwarden)
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Age
18 Years to 99 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Persons are familymembers or partners from a person who died by murder. 2. Familymembers and partners lost a person through murder, no longer than three years ago. 3. Persons have psychiatric complaints and features of complicated grief 4. Familymembers and partners are 18 years and older

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Familymembers or partners who commit the murder themself, because of their forensic treatment. 2. People with mental retardation 3. People with a psychiatric disorder.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Outcome measures: - Complicated mourning: Mourning Questionnaire, RVL (Boelen et al 2003); - PTSD: shock processing list (SVL) is the Dutch version of the Impact of Events Scale (Van der Ploeg et al, 2004). - Health: Brief Symptom Questionnaire (KKL Appelo & Lange, 2007) Variables: - Psychological functioning and emotions (including anger, fear) (SCL-90; Arrindell & Ettema, 2003); - Cognitions: Mourning Cognition Questionnaire (Boelen & Lensvelt-Mulders, 2005); - Avoidance: Questionnaire Avoidance in Mourning (Boelen & Van den Bout, in press); - Demographic questions and questions about the circumstances surrounding death (De Keijser, 1997); - Questions about meaning (method described in Armour, 2002); - Peritraumatic dissociation: Peritraumatic Dissociative Experiences Questionnaire (Marmar et al, 1994); - Resilience: Positive Results List (PUL; Appelo & Lange, 2007) - Questions about unwanted attention from the media and judicial involvement (based on Murphy, 2006); - Questions support fellow sufferers groups (based on Andriessen, 2004).

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
see above

Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)