EMDR in the Treatment of Specific Phobia.

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Specific Phobia

Treatments: Other: EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing); Other: Exposure therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00184145

EPLK-2004

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose for this study is to determine whether EMDR is effective in the treatment of specific (animal) phobia.

Full description

Aims: To test the hypothesis that one session EMDR is more effective for the treatment of specific (animal) phobia than relaxation immediately after treatment and at follow-up. Secondly to test whether an additional one-session exposure therapy offered to both treatment groups (EMDR patients and relaxation patients) improves outcome in the EMDR-group and results in equal outcome for both treatment groups.

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with Specific (Animal) Phobia

Exclusion criteria

• Current or past psychotic disorder
• Current substance dependence or abuse
• Serious physical illness
• Active suicidal behavior
• Bipolar affective disorder
• Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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0 participants in 1 patient group

EMDR

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental group was treated for animal phobia by EMDR, control group received an attention placebo (relaxation plus breathing exercises). Afterwards, both groups were treated by exposure therapy (therapy of choice for animal phobia).

Treatment:

Other: EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

Other: Exposure therapy