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ID
Source
Health condition
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Sponsors and support
Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen
Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
PTSD symptoms, self-report by child: UCLA PTSD Reaction Index (PTSD-RI)
Secondary outcome
Child measures
- PTSD symptoms: PTSD section of the K-SADS-PL; UCLA PTSD Reaction Index (PTSD-RI)
- Depressive symptoms: BDI-II
- General functioning: SCARED; PedsQL; GCI; #schooldays
- Dissociative symptoms: dissociation section of the BPD-47
- Social support after the trauma happened
- Disclosure of the traumatic event
- Avoidance: PABQ
Parent measures, about psychopathology of the child
- PTSD symptoms: UCLA PTSD Reaction Index (PTSD-RI)
- General functioning: PedsQL; GCI
Parent measures, about own psychopathology
- General functioning: GCI; OQ-45.2; BDI-II
- PTSD symptoms: PSS-SR (about possible own traumatic events and about the traumatic event of the child)
- Avoidance: PABQ
Background summary
The present study aims to examine the effectiveness of a brief intensive exposure therapy for children with PTSD. The new treatment program makes use of proven effective therapy techniques in processing the trauma and decreasing PTSD symptoms in children, whereas the delivery of the treatment is using a new format: one week of intensive trauma-focused treatment while including a trauma-related social support program for family members.
Country of Recruitment: The Netherlands
Study objective
The present study aims at the improvement of the treatment of children with PTSD
by examining the effectiveness of a brief intensive exposure therapy (IET) for children with PTSD using a multiple baseline design (patients are randomly assigned to baseline length).
Study design
Time points of primary interest (primary outcome)
Weekly during:
- Baseline length (varying from 4 to 8 weeks before treatment)
- Treatment length (5 weeks)
- Post treatment length (varying from 4 to 8 weeks after treatment)
- Follow up length (during 4 weeks, 3 months after treatment)
Time points secondary outcomes
- before treatment (A0)
- three weeks after baseline (A1)
- three months after baseline (A2)
- and six months after baseline (A3)
Intervention
Brief intensive modified exposure therapy and a trauma-related social support program for family members:
5 days (one week), offered in three blocks of 90 minutes each day and up to three follow up appointments (90 minutes each)
Tarweweg 2
A. Minnen, van
Nijmegen 6534 AM
The Netherlands
024-3837820
avminnen@ggznijmegen.nl.
Tarweweg 2
A. Minnen, van
Nijmegen 6534 AM
The Netherlands
024-3837820
avminnen@ggznijmegen.nl.
Inclusion criteria
(1) Current DSM-IV diagnosis of PTSD established with the PTSD section of the Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS-PL)
(2) Age between 7 and 18 years (boys & girls)
Exclusion criteria
(1) Psychosis or delusion disorders (current or in the past)
(2) Suicidality
(3) Mental retardation
(4) Substance abuse or dependence or alcohol abuse or dependence
(5) Insufficient ability to speak and write Dutch
(6) Trauma caused by a caregiver who is part of the current primary care system
(7) Current DSM-IV diagnosis of PTSD of the caregiver established with a structured diagnostic interview (M.I.N.I.) and the PTSD Symptom Scale Self-Report (PSS-SR)
Design
Recruitment
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In other registers
| Register | ID |
|---|---|
| NTR-new | NL4149 |
| NTR-old | NTR4301 |
| Other | *ZonMW & **CCMO : *80-82470-98-006-04 & **NL36971.091.11 |
| ISRCTN | ISRCTN wordt niet meer aangevraagd. |