UCLA Couples Counseling for Combat Veterans (CCCV)

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Recent Era Combat Veteran; PTSD; Couples Communication

Treatments: Behavioral: Structured Approach Therapy

Study type: Interventional

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

Identifiers

NCT01627548

11-003109

Details and patient eligibility

About

A pilot intervention of an existing intervention adapted for the returning warfighter population: a couples treatment for PTSD, Structured Approach Therapy (SAT), which emphasizes reducing the PTSD avoidance/numbing symptoms that are corrosive in families.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• OIF/OEF/ OND veteran with at least one deployment
• In a cohabitating relationship for 6 months or longer
• Cohabitating 50% of the time or more
• Diagnosed with PTSD or meets the diagnosis criteria for PTSD as related to deployment experience (CAPS)
• Ability to make weekly appointments
• Willingness to commit to change

Exclusion criteria

• Receiving an evidence-based treatment for PTSD within the past 6 months
• Receiving couples therapy within the last 6 months
• Moderate or excessive physical violence within the past 3 months (CTS)
• Alcohol/substance dependence (SCID)
• Known domestic violence/abuse (CTS)
• Symptoms of psychosis within the past 3 months
• Unstable psychiatric medicine usage or on regimen less than 3 months

Trial design

0 participants in 2 patient groups

Waitlisted Intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

Couple will be consented, assessed and randomized to a waitlist of 4 months. The couple will be reassessed at 8 weeks and prior to initiating intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Structured Approach Therapy

Immediate Intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

Eligible couples who are randomized to immediate intervention will begin sessions with a trained interventionist within weeks of consent and initial assessments

Treatment:

Behavioral: Structured Approach Therapy