Short-term Intervention and Health Trajectories After Mass Trauma

Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies

Status: Completed

Conditions: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: TF-CBT-Short

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05042323

Gjerdrum

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study has two aims. The first is to understand more of what may be typical health trajectories after mass trauma for children and adults and what predicts these trajectories. The second is to understand what may be effective early interventions to prevent long-term health and psychosocial problems for youth (6-19). Participants are recruited from an outreach program implemented after a landslide killed 11 persons and destroyed 33 houses in Gjerdrum in Norway. One third of the inhabitants were evacuated. All evacuated are contacted and screened for trauma related difficulties. Those who have significant post-trauma reactions are offered trauma focused interventions.

Full description

Two short step-wise interventions are developed for this study as an early intervention after mass trauma based on components from TF-CBT to test the relative importance of dosage and the sequencing of components.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 19 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Exposed to the landslide
• Between 6-19 years old
• A score of 15 or more on the CATS
• A score between 11 - 14 on the CATS and have additional problems that have started or worsened after the landslide.

Exclusion criteria

• Suicidal
• Psychotic

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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10 participants in 2 patient groups

TF-CBT-Skills

Experimental group

Description:

Step 1: 4-5 sessions with stabilization/skill building Step 2: 4-5 sessions with narrative and cognitive processing

Treatment:

Behavioral: TF-CBT-Short

TF-CBT-Narr

Active Comparator group

Description:

Step 1: 4-5 sessions with narrative and cognitive processing Step 2: 4-5 sessions with stabilization/skill building

Treatment:

Behavioral: TF-CBT-Short