SAASI
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Mental and Behavioural Disorders
- Registration Number
- PACTR202208559723690
- Lead Sponsor
- Stellenbosch University Department of Psychiatry
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 64
Inclusion Criteria
Inclusion: Adolescents aged between15 and 19 years who have experienced at least one traumatic event, and meet criteria for PTSD or for subclinical PTSD and experience sleeping difficulties.
Exclusion Criteria
Exclusion: Adolescents with known global cognitive disability or who have commenced pharmacological treatment in the last 4 weeks, initiated electroconvulsive therapies and/or transcranial magnetic stimulation in the last 3-months or started structured psychotherapy for PTSD in the last 3 months. Adolescents with a history of traumatic brain injury and lasting medical and/or psychological symptoms will also be excluded.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method PTSD (Child PTSD Symptom Scale - self-report version for DSM-5) and Sleep (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Anxiety (Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children), Depression (Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale-6), Sleep Quality (Adolescent Sleep Wake Scale), Sleep disturbances (Fear of Sleep Inventory), Insomnia (Insomnia Severity Index), Alcohol use (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test), Drug use (Drug Use Disorders Identification Test), Emotional and behavioural strengths and difficulties (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire)