Lifespan Integration After Sexual Trauma

Insamlingsstiftelsen Wonsa, World of No Sexual Abuse

Status: Completed

Conditions: Symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Treatments: Other: Lifespan Integration

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03141047

1001

Details and patient eligibility

About

A new psychological trauma treatment method is tested on a population (n 100) of adult women who have been sexually traumatized at one specific time 0-5 years before they enter the study.

Full description

One treatment session is given with the psychological treatment method Lifespan Integration (LI). The main outcome is change on Impact of Event Scale (IES) before and after the treatment. The change is analyzed and compared with the change on Impact of Event Scale (IES) among the people on the waiting list arm. Self-rating questionnaires are being used 5+/-3 days before treatment, 20 +/-3 days after treatment, and 6 months +/- 6 weeks after the first measurement.

Enrollment: 63 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Sexual trauma 1-5 years before inclusion
• understanding Swedish, read and spoken

Exclusion criteria

• Psychotic symptoms
• drug abuse
• neuropsychiatric diagnoses ADHD and asperger

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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63 participants in 2 patient groups

Lifespan Integration

Experimental group

Description:

This arm is given one session of Lifespan Integration. Differences on Impact of Event Scale from the first measurement at inclusion and the second measurement 20 +/- 3 days after the first measurement, and after treatment, is analyzed and compared with the results from the Group on waiting list. A third measurement and comparison is being made 6 months +/- 6 weeks after the first measurement at inclusion.

Treatment:

Other: Lifespan Integration

Waiting list

No Intervention group

Description:

This arm gets no treatment, and differences on Impact of Event Scale from the first measurement at inclusion at the second measurement 20 +/- 3 days after, without treatment, is analyzed and compared with the results from the treatment Group. A third measurement and comparison is being made 6 months +/- 6 week after the first measurement at inclusion.