Early Psychological Intervention After Rape

Karolinska Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Modified prolonged exposure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03887689

2016/2194-31

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to translate and adapt a brief treatment protocol based on prolonged exposure provided within 72 hours after a rape to a Swedish context and pilot test feasibility and delivery in ten executive patients recruited at the Emergency Clinic for Rape victims in Stockholm.

Full description

The aim of the study is to translate and adapt a brief treatment protocol based on prolonged exposure provided within 72 hours after a rape to a Swedish context and pilot test feasibility and delivery in ten executive patients recruited at the Emergency Clinic for Rape victims in Stockholm.

ENDPOINTS The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) at baseline and post-treatment.

Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) , Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule(WHODAS-12) at post-treatment.The clinician-administered PTSD scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5) at follow up.

Data on feasibility aspects of the intervention will also be collected: compliance to the intervention/homework/assessments, possibilities to recruit, adverse events.

Recruitment The investigatorors will recruit ten consecutive patients attending at the Emergency Clinic for Rape victims at Stockholm South Hospital, Sweden.

Safety parameters Participants had the opportunity to report any adverse events during treatment, at posttreatment and follow-up.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• At least 18 years of age
• Attending at the Emergency Clinic for Rape victims at Stockholm South Hospital, Sweden within 72 hours after experiencing a rape)
• Remembered the event.

Exclusion criteria

• ongoing suicidal ideation or attempted suicide within the last two months
• ongoing self-harm behavior
• ongoing intoxication
• other serious psychiatric comorbidity (ongoing psychotic symptoms or manic episode)
• low cognitive capacity
• not fluent in Swedish
• subjected to ongoing violence or threat

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 1 patient group

Modified prolonged exposure

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will receive three sessions of modified prolonged exposure therapy.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Modified prolonged exposure