Evaluating complex interventions: Multi-Family Therapy with veteran-families
- Conditions
- ontwrichting gezinsrelatiesPTSD trauma10002861
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON38579
- Lead Sponsor
- Reinier van Arkelgroep (Den Bosch)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Withdrawn
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 120
Included are families in which one parent suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and in which a problematic family situation has arised associated with the PTSD.
There are several contra-indications for participation of families in group therapy:
Sexual violence within the family, and no arrangements can be made to stop this abuse.
Alcohol or drug abuse, and no arragements can be made to stop this abuse with or without supportive treatment such as medication.
No arrangements can be made over posession of weapons.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Family functioning<br /><br>PTSD</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>It is not possible to determine a priori what outcomes are related to the<br /><br>changes resulting from the MFT. The nature and severity of problems change, but<br /><br>families nd family members do not need to change in similar ways. It is<br /><br>therefore important to look at effect measurements at group level, but even<br /><br>more so to evaluate change processes at the individual level and gather as much<br /><br>information as possible from the data The outcomes in the various phases are a<br /><br>result of the data from the previous phases of the study.</p><br>