Testing of a Mobile Web App to Decrease Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Women After Sexual Assault

University of North Carolina (UNC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Mobile Web App

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04334356

19-3399

Details and patient eligibility

About

Interventions are available to all adult women sexual assault survivors to reduce the risk of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection, yet no interventions are provided to reduce posttraumatic stress. This pilot study tests the ability of a smartphone-based web app to prevent and reduce posttraumatic stress in women sexual assault survivors.

Enrollment: 25 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Present for emergency care within 72 hours of sexual assault
• Receive a sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) exam
• Alert and oriented

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to consent due to intoxication, serious injury preventing ability to hear, speak, or see to consent, or other causes
• Prisoners
• Pregnant women
• Women living with assailant who plan to continue living with assailant
• Women with fractures from the assault
• Admitted patients
• Women who do not have a smartphone with continuous service for the past 12 months
• Inability to read and speak English
• No mailing address
• SANE exam took place >72 hours ago
• Patient previously enrolled in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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25 participants in 1 patient group

App Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

All participants will receive the web app for prevention of posttraumatic stress.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mobile Web App