NET in Iranian Women Suffering From Post Traumatic Stress Symptoms

University of Konstanz

Status: Completed

Conditions: Domestic Violence; Mental Disorders

Treatments: Other: Treatment-as-usual; Behavioral: Narrative Exposure Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01731418

TO-10122012-UK

Details and patient eligibility

About

The proposed study seeks to investigate to what extent Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) is an effective treatment for the reduction of symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression and for the improvement of daily functioning in Iranian women who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV). In addition, the study seeks to investigate whether NET therapy could lead to the reduction of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) within their marriage.

Enrollment: 34 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 16 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• being victims of Intimate Partner Violence and seeking help at target clinics in order to reduce their psychological symptoms, currently living together with their partner/husband, meeting the set cut-off point on the PTSD scale according to DSM-IV.

Exclusion criteria

• schizophrenia, epilepsy, mental retardation, drug abuse and mal-nourishment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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34 participants in 2 patient groups

Treamtent-as-usual

Other group

Description:

Treatment-as-usual can be defined as the commonly used psychotherapy for abused women in Iran, such as medical therapy and/or supportive psychotherapy.

Treatment:

Other: Treatment-as-usual

Narrative Exposure Therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) is a standardized short-term approach based on the principles of cognitive behavioral exposure therapy and testimony therapy for the treatment of PTSD resulting from organized violence.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Narrative Exposure Therapy