Secondary traumatization in refugee care - EMDR intervention for interpreters (STEIN)
- Conditions
- Post-traumatic stress disorder after secondary traumatization
- Registration Number
- DRKS00032092
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Abteilung für Allgemeine Innere Medizin und Psychosomatik
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 30
Participants who work as care givers in the reception center of the Patrick Henry Village in Heidelberg, or other first reception settings and from charitable organizations on a professional or voluntary basis. Included are participants (min. 18 years), who are able to give consent, who report a work-related stress and the willingness to process the work-related experiences with an EMDR exposure is also a prerequisite. Inclusion in the study is of course subject to their voluntary and informed consent to participate in the study.
Active suicidality, active self-injurious behavior, substance use, or psychotic symptoms. This is inquired about as part of the anamnesis.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method PTSD symptoms due to secondary traumatization, assessed by the Secondary Traumatization Questionnaire (FST).<br>The questionnaire-based data collection will be carried out upon the initial screening appointment (T1), the second data collection point (T2) after the last EMDR-session (around 6 weeks after T1), then 4 weeks (T3) after T2.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method PTSD symptomatology (Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale; PDS), symptoms of depression (Patient Health Questionnaire; PHQ-9), symptoms of anxiety (Generalized-Anxiety-Disorder-7; GAD-7), burden of physical symptoms (Somatic-Symptom-Disorder-12; SSD-12), scale for professional quality of life, (PROQOL-5), health-related quality of life (Short-Form-12; SF-12), and psychological well-being (WHO-5).