Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction Therapy (TrIGR)

Veterans Medical Research Foundation

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Post-traumatic Stress Disorders; Guilt; Shame

Treatments: Behavioral: Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction Therapy; Behavioral: Supportive Care Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT02512445

09054

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this project is to determine if a 6-session psychotherapy intervention will help Veterans feel less deployment-related guilt and less distress related to their guilt. Half of the participants will receive the guilt focused intervention and half will receive a supportive intervention. A supplemental pilot study added in FY2021 will examine the intervention for pandemic-related guilt events.

Enrollment: 188 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participant Served in OEF/OIF/OND, has post-traumatic guilt related to deployment event (for pandemic supplement in 2021, has guilt related to pandemic event)

Exclusion criteria

• Moderate or severe cognitive impairment, acute suicidality, current severe substance use disorder, unmanaged psychosis or mania

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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188 participants in 2 patient groups

Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction Therapy

Experimental group

Description:

6-session psychotherapy intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction Therapy

Supportive Care Therapy

Active Comparator group

Description:

6-session psychotherapy intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Supportive Care Therapy