Development and Evaluation of a Tonic Immobility Focused Psychoeducational Intervention (TIP)

Florida State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Tonic Immobility Response

Treatments: Behavioral: Tonic Immobility Psychoeducation (TIP); Behavioral: Health Education Training (HET)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05113277

Morabito01

Details and patient eligibility

About

A randomized controlled trial is planned to evaluate a brief, web-based intervention intended to educate about tonic immobility (TI) within a sample of those who experienced TI in the context of a traumatic event.

Full description

A randomized controlled trial is planned to evaluate a brief, web-based intervention intended to educate about tonic immobility (TI) within a sample of those who experienced TI in the context of a traumatic event. The investigators expect that this intervention will lead to improvement in posttraumatic guilt, shame, and PTSD symptoms as compared to an active control condition.

Enrollment: 51 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years or older
• Endorsed prior TI experience (TIQ items A & B)
• Elevated posttraumatic stress symptoms (PCL-5; Blevins et al., 2015)

Exclusion criteria

Inability to consent or complete the intervention including:

• Cognitive impairment
• Uncorrected visual or auditory impairment
• Unmedicated severe mental illness
• Imminent risk of harm to self or others

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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51 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Tonic Immobility Psychoeducation (TIP)

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the experimental condition will receive the TIP intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Tonic Immobility Psychoeducation (TIP)

Health Education Training (HET)

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Participants in the control condition will receive the HET intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Health Education Training (HET)