Improving Implementation of Evidence Based PTSD Psychotherapy for Veterans in the Community

Veterans Medical Research Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: PTSD

Treatments: Behavioral: Motivational Enhancement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02499432

12-1061

Details and patient eligibility

About

To further increase the access of evidence based psychotherapies for Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, we propose to offer training and intensive consultation to community-based providers in Cognitive Processing Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. However, we believe that many clinicians may not implement Cognitive Processing Therapy or take advantage of consultation after initial training. For this reason, we propose to examine the effectiveness of an enhanced training method, which would add Motivational Interviewing to the standard Cognitive Processing Therapy training. Motivational Interviewing is a form of collaborative discussion for strengthening motivation and commitment to change. We hypothesize that augmenting the standard Cognitive Processing Therapy training with these techniques will reduce providers' reluctance to fully implement the interventions.

Enrollment: 54 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• at least 18 years of age
• currently licensed in their mental health discipline or a graduate level trainee in their mental health discipline

Exclusion criteria

• Have completed a 2-day training in Cognitive Processing Therapy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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54 participants in 2 patient groups

Motivational Enhancement

Experimental group

Description:

Motivational Interviewing/Enhancement is a form of collaborative discussion for strengthening motivation and commitment to change.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motivational Enhancement

Standard training

No Intervention group

Description:

Training as usual