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Treating PTSD in Patients With Psychosis: A Within-Group Controlled Feasibility Study Examining the Efficacy and Safety of Evidence-Based PE and EMDR Protocols

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Title
Treating PTSD in Patients With Psychosis: A Within-Group Controlled Feasibility Study Examining the Efficacy and Safety of Evidence-Based PE and EMDR Protocols
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Behavior Therapy, July 2013
DOI 10.1016/j.beth.2013.07.002
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Paul A.J.M. de Bont, Agnes van Minnen, Ad de Jongh

Abstract

The present study uses a within-group controlled design to examine the efficacy and safety of two psychological approaches to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in 10 patients with a concurrent psychotic disorder. Patients were randomly assigned either to prolonged exposure (PE; N=5) or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR; N=5). Before, during, and after treatment, a total of 20 weekly assessments of PTSD symptoms, hallucinations, and delusions were carried out. Twelve weekly assessments of adverse events took place during the treatment phase. PTSD diagnosis, level of social functioning, psychosis-prone thinking, and general psychopathology were assessed pretreatment, posttreatment, and at three-month follow-up. Throughout the treatment, adverse events were monitored at each session. An intention-to-treat analysis of the 10 patients starting treatment showed that the PTSD treatment protocols of PE and EMDR significantly reduced PTSD symptom severity; PE and EMDR were equally effective and safe. Eight of the 10 patients completed the full intervention period. Seven of the 10 patients (70%) no longer met the diagnostic criteria for PTSD at follow-up. No serious adverse events occurred, nor did patients show any worsening of hallucinations, delusions, psychosis proneness, general psychopathology, or social functioning. The results of this feasibility trial suggest that PTSD patients with comorbid psychotic disorders benefit from trauma-focused treatment approaches such as PE and EMDR.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 1%
Canada 2 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 263 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 44 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 39 14%
Researcher 28 10%
Student > Bachelor 26 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 21 8%
Other 58 21%
Unknown 61 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 133 48%
Medicine and Dentistry 31 11%
Social Sciences 8 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 2%
Other 22 8%
Unknown 71 26%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 July 2017.
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#5,140,240
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Outputs of similar age from Behavior Therapy
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