Treatment of PTSD as a result of chronic interpersonal violence in early childhood committed before the age of 16 by one or more perpetrators form the private environment: Waitinglist versus Imagery Exposure versus Imagery Rescripting

Completed

Conditions: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
10002861
psychological consequences of early childhood trauma

Registration Number: NL-OMON47427

Lead Sponsor: Psychotherapy & Movement BV

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 173

Inclusion Criteria

1. Meeting DSM-IV criteria for PTSD
2. Comorbidity with depression, anxiety disorder, ADHD, dissociative disorder, reactive psychotic disorder, alcohol/drugs consumption, borderline personality disorder and cluster C personality disorder are included.
3. Having experienced repeated or chronic interpersonal trauma before age of 16 (e.g. sexual, fysical or emotional abuse) by one or more perpetrators for example (foster), (step) parents, elder brother, sister, uncle.,aunt, nephew, niece, friend of parents, someone from the neigbourhood, school , sport, institution , church and give minimal two examples. Age difference is 5 years with the perpetrator.
4. At least 18 years of age till 85 years old.
5. Having sufficient fluency in Dutch to complete treatment and research protocol
6. Participants using prescribed anti-depressed medication are required to be a stable dose for at least 3 months before the beginning of the treatment and remain on this dose throughout the treatment. The same applies for benzodiazepinens with a maximum of 30 mg equivalents.
7.Signed informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

1. Other treatments for one or more psychiatric disorders
2. Schizofrenia, active suicidality, dissociative identity disorder, mentally retarded
3. No fixed residence, major financial problems, , no aid figure, problems with justitice and law, current sexual en fysical abuse
4. Use of other psychofarmaca than SSRI's or start with medication within the study
5. Don't speak Dutch well enough.

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>Primary outcome measure:<br /><br>PTSD symptoms:<br /><br>* PDS (self-report): Severity of PTSD is measured by the Dutch version of the<br /><br>PDS (Foa, Riggs, Dancu, & Rothbaum, 1993; Arntz, 1993) contains 17 items that<br /><br>correspond to the DSM-IV PTSD symptoms, each rated on a 0 - 3-point scale.</p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures