PTSD Treatment for Veterans With Serious Mental Illness to Improve Functional Outcomes

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

PTSD is common among Veterans with serious mental illness (SMI). Co-occurring PTSD and SMI lead to poorer mental health and physical functioning than either diagnosis alone. Despite known high prevalence rates of PTSD in SMI populations as well as disparities in prevalence and treatment use for Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC), little research has been done to: a) evaluate leading treatments for PTSD in individuals with SMI, and b) develop culturally responsive methods to integrate with PTSD treatments for SMI Veterans. This study aims to address research and clinical gaps by: a) testing the feasibility and acceptability of Written Exposure Therapy (WET), a VA evidence-based psychotherapy for PTSD in Veterans with SMI, and b) incorporating culturally responsive assessment methods. Results from this study will inform whether WET and culturally responsive assessment are feasible to implement, acceptable to Veterans with SMI, and worth examining in standard or optimized form in a larger clinical trial.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: f
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• enrolled in outpatient mental health services within the VAMHCS (including general outpatient Mental Health Clinic (MHC), Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Centers (PRRCs), Mental Health Intensive Case Management (MHICM), and PTSD Clinical Teams (PCTs))

• diagnosis of PTSD as confirmed by assessment with the Clinician-administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5) past month version

• SMI diagnosis as defined by VHA Directive 1160 (i.e., psychotic spectrum or bipolar disorders) as confirmed by the medical record

• regular telephone access

Locations
United States
Maryland
Baltimore VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD
RECRUITING
Baltimore
Contact Information
Primary
Mary K Howell, PhD
Mary.Howell@va.gov
(410) 605-7000
Backup
Amy L Drapalski, PhD
amy.drapalski@va.gov
(410) 637-1855
Time Frame
Start Date: 2023-12-01
Estimated Completion Date: 2028-03-31
Participants
Target number of participants: 48
Treatments
Experimental: Written Exposure Therapy (WET)
5 individual therapy sessions of WET via video telehealth
Active_comparator: PTSD Education Control
5 individual sessions of PTSD psychoeducation via video telehealth
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: VA Office of Research and Development

This content was sourced from clinicaltrials.gov