Considering Racial and Acculturation Stress in Addressing Trauma

NYU Langone Health

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Trauma-related PTSD

Treatments: Behavioral: Trauma Focused CBT (TF-CBT); Behavioral: Trauma Systems therapy (TST)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT05974176

23-00094

Details and patient eligibility

About

Investigators plan to offer two evidence based interventions - Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (TF-CBT) and Trauma Systems therapy (TST) to traumatized children and their families. The investigators are looking to evaluate the effectiveness of these interventions in the context of additional stress related to racialized trauma and acculturation stress

Enrollment: 475 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Child/adolescent aged 5-17 years of age who has experienced trauma with associated and related emotional dysregulation (i.e PTSD) and one of their parent/guardian
• Have capacity and willingness to provide consent or age-appropriate assent

Exclusion criteria

• Individual with intellectual disability with an IQ<70
• Individual with active suicidality, homicidality, or other symptoms at the time of enrollment that warrants hospitalization

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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475 participants in 2 patient groups

Trauma Focused CBT (TF-CBT)

Experimental group

Description:

Patients and families randomized to engage in TF-CBT.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Trauma Focused CBT (TF-CBT)

Trauma Systems therapy (TST)

Experimental group

Description:

Patients and families randomized to engage in TST.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Trauma Systems therapy (TST)