A Randomised Control Trial of Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) for Post-Traumatic Stress Following Burn Injury

Royal North Shore Hospital0 sites40 target enrollmentAugust 14, 2014

Overview

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

August 14, 2014

End Date

TBD

Last Updated

6 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

•All burns patients admitted to the Severe Burns Injury Unit at Royal Nortrh Shore Hospital, Sydney will be eligible to participate in the first (screening) phase of this study. Of these patients, those with moderate to high levels of uncomplicated post\-traumatic stress symptoms at 2\-4 weeks post injury will be offered participation in the second/treatment phase of this study. Moderate to high levels of post\-traumatic stress symptoms will be defined as an Impact of Event Scale Revised (IES\-R) score equal or greater than 26\.

•1\.Patients younger than 18 years of age.
•2\.Medical or psychiatric issue that impairs the ability of the participant to give informed consent.
•3\.Patients with high levels of dissociation (DES score \>40\)
•4\.Patients suffering from acute grief reactions
•5\.Patients at risk of self\-harm who cannot assure their safety.
•6\.Patients who remain in an unsafe environment/current abusive relationship.
•7\.Patients with complex chronic trauma histories that are unresolved (discernible signs of ongoing traumatic disorganization of reasoning, discourse and behaviour)
•8\.Patients that are required to give evidence or statements to the police or in a court of law.
•9\. Patients with self\-inflicted burns
•Patients younger than 18 years of age and those with issues that impair the ability to give informed consent will be excluded as their capacity for informed consent will be affected.