efficacy of evidence based exposure- or EMDR-treatment for PTSD with patients with a vulnerability for psychosis. A multiple baserate pilot study.

Completed

Conditions: posttraumatische stresstoornis
post traumatic stress disorder
psychosis
traumas
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Registration Number: NL-OMON32890

Lead Sponsor: GGZ Oost Brabant (Rosmalen)

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 8

Inclusion Criteria

1. Having had one or more psychotic episodes due to psychiatric illness (SCID-1; structured clinical interview for DSM-IV-diagnosis)
2. PTSD (CAPS: clinician-administered PTSD scale, originally by Blake, Weathers, Nagy, Kaloupek, Charney, & Keane, 1995)

Exclusion Criteria

1. Severe dissociative disorders. High-scores on the SDQ-20 (scores above 35) are excluded because of the severe possibility of having a serious dissociative disorder. (somatoform-dissociation questionairre, 20 items; Nijenhuis, Spinhoven, Van Dyck, Van der Hart, & Vanderlinden, 1996),
2. Severe psychosis at the time of investigation (SCID-1)

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>• PTSD symptoms<br /><br>•The frequency of PTSD-symptoms will be assessed with<br /><br>Posttraumatic Stress Symptom Scale, Self Report, PSS- SR; Foa et<br /><br>al.,1993; Dutch translation; Engelhard & Arntz, 2005; Questionnaire, 17 items).<br /><br>• Psychotic symptoms<br /><br>•Psychotic symptoms will be measured by the PSYRATS (Haddocok et<br /><br>al., 1994, vert de Hert et al., 1996), which<br /><br>measures the frequency and influence of hallucinations and<br /><br>delusions. </p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>1. Style of reasoning in psychotic patients, measured by the O-Life (mason,<br /><br>1995;2006).<br /><br>2. Level of functioning, measured by the Outcome Questionnaire (OQ; lambert &<br /><br>Burlinganme, 2001).<br /><br>3. Social functioning, measured by the Social Functioning Scale (van Birchwood,<br /><br>1990.<br /><br>4. Medication; changes<br /><br>5. Number of admissions or crises during treatment<br /><br></p><br>