Active clinical trials for "Psychological Trauma"

This study examines the efficacy of a psychosensory intervention in relation to: Resilience, Type D personality, and physiological effects (on blood pressure, heart rate and salivary cortisol) in a group of people who have self-referred for the trauma resolution psychosensory therapy - Havening Techniques (HT).

This pilot study is designed to test the feasibility, acceptability, and potential effectiveness of a mobile phone application (app) developed by the VA National Center for PTSD (VA NCPTSD) for use by Veterans with insomnia. The primary objective is to assess whether Veterans find the Insomnia Coach app to be satisfactory and feasible to use. Secondary objectives are to determine if use of the app improves subjective sleep quality and sleep parameters (e.g., sleep latency, wake after sleep onset, and total sleep time), as well as other important outcomes (e.g., daily functioning).

This study will perform a clinical trial with adolescent girls to pilot a new cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) for weight-related bullying testing (1) feasibility, (2) acceptability, and (3) initial efficacy. The treatment will be conducted via audio/video telehealth.

Connection to Environment with Cognitive Therapy (CONNECT): A Single-Case Experimental Design Exploring Dissociative Experiences and Voices Emerging empirical evidence has suggested that dissociation is a robust determinant of voice-hearing in psychosis, and that dissociation mediates the link between trauma and voices. Despite the emerging evidence-base, targeted therapeutic interventions focusing on dissociation remain largely untested. The aim of the current study is to investigate whether targeting dissociation leads to improvements in distressing voices in people with a history of trauma. This will be done by delivering an eight session intervention called 'CONNECT' to six individuals within the Glasgow Psychological Trauma Service (GPTS) who hear voices, have experienced trauma and are dissociating. The intervention will focus on learning strategies to manage dissociation. It is hypothesised that reduced levels of dissociation will be associated with reduction in the frequency and distress associated with hearing voices. This study will use a randomized multiple baseline single-case experimental design, meaning that participants will be randomly allocated to a baseline of two, three or four weeks and then will begin eight weeks of Connection to Environment Cognitive Therapy (CONNECT). As well as daily measures during baseline and intervention phases, there will be four assessment points (baseline, pre-intervention, post-intervention and follow-up). The study will take approximately three months plus follow-up one month after therapy ends. Individual levels of dissociation and voices will be compared during baseline and intervention periods using visual analysis and Tau-U. This study will contribute to the evidence-based for dissociation interventions targeting distressing voices among this population. It serves to investigate the proposed mechanism in a clinical population using a therapeutic intervention. It will therefore inform clinicians of the effectiveness and feasibility of using such strategies in clinical practice and may have good generalizability to practice.

The overarching goal of the study is to examine the effects of a new Health and Wellness Curriculum (Pure Power) being implemented in the Ravenswood City School District in East Palo Alto. The Pure Power Curriculum, which the Sonima Foundation (Now Pure Edge Inc.,)developed, includes exercise based on yoga, common exercise regimes, relaxation techniques, mindfulness practices, and nutrition education, and was introduced in 2014 to the Ravenswood City Schools, independent of the research. The new curriculum was expected to yield dramatic positive effects on students' socio-emotional development, which the investigators aimed to examine through this study. This research evaluation measures the impact of the Pure Power Curriculum on the socioemotional, behavioral, cognitive, academic, and physiological functioning of students in a low-socioeconomic status (SES) school community over time by evaluating student development at three time points: baseline (i.e., prior to implementation of the curriculum), one-year follow-up, and two-year follow-up. Only third and fifth-grade students were eligible for enrollment at baseline. All data collection procedures were replicated with the control group.

This is a prospective cohort treatment intervention study (n=200) whereby U.S. service members and veterans with symptoms of PTSD will undergo 2-5 sessions of ART delivered by Florida licensed mental health professionals trained in ART. The 3 study aims are to: (i) evaluate among U.S. service members and veterans overall, and within specific subgroups, the magnitude of change in symptoms of PTSD following treatment with ART; (ii) evaluate the sustainability of treatment response with ART; and (iii) evaluate the cost effectiveness of ART compared to prolonged exposure (PE) therapy in the treatment of symptoms of PTSD.

This study will examine whether accelerated resolution therapy (ART) is effective for the treatment of prolonged and complicated grief and associated psychological trauma among older adult hospice caregivers who have experienced the death of an immediate family member at least 12 months ago.

People living with HIV may suffer HIV-related psychological trauma. Studies also show that this group is vulnerable to non-HIV-related trauma. Trauma can increase vulnerability to stress and reducing the ability to cope. It can have a negative impact on treatment adherence, treatment outcomes, functioning and health-related quality of life. However, despite evidence showing psychological trauma can contribute to poor outcomes in HIV, little research has been carried out to assess whether psychological trauma-focused therapy can help people living with HIV. A first-line treatment for psychological trauma is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. This therapy is recommended by the World Health Organization for treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, with many studies showing this treatment is safe and effective for this disorder. However, it has not to our knowledge been specifically tested in the population of people living with HIV. This project will test whether EMDR therapy, in addition to the standard medical treatment received at the Infectious Diseases Unit, is more effective than standard medical treatment alone in reducing psychological trauma, improving health-related quality of life and improving HIV outcomes in people recently diagnosed with HIV. To test this, the investigators will recruit 40 people who have received a diagnosis of HIV within the last month. 20 will be offered the possibility to receive EMDR treatment for one hour weekly for up to 6 months, in addition to the standard medical treatment, while the other 20 will be offered only the standard medical treatment. The hypotheses of the present study are that the participants who receive EMDR therapy on top of their standard medical treatment will show a reduction in psychological trauma and related symptoms such as anxiety, depression and global distress, as compared to those who did not. The investigators also predict that the EMDR group will show improved functioning and health-related quality of life. The final hypotheses are that the EMDR group will show improved treatment adherence and HIV outcomes. If this study shows that a psychological trauma-focused therapy can help people adjust to a recent HIV diagnosis and have better outcomes, this will have important implications for improving care for people living with HIV.

This study investigates the effectiveness of EMDR for survivors of childhood sexual abuse. All participants will undertake a standard course of EMDR via the National Heath Service program, alongside a number of questionnaires and a follow-up interview.

Study of adult patients with severe all-cause trauma having a body temperature less than 36°Celsius (C) that is managed by a Mobile Emergency Service team and oriented towards a Vital Emergency Room. Currently two devices are used to warm patients during their care at the scene of an accident: a survival blanket and heating in the emergency vehicle. Despite these two devices many patients arrive in hypothermia (body temperature less than 36°C) in emergency departments. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a body warmer associated with standard warming devices on the correction of hypothermia compared to the standard procedure in severely traumatized patients with hypothermia . It is a national multicentric study with 14 participating Mobile Emergency Service centers and hopefully will include 612 patients. The study will be carried out according to a pattern of 28 successive periods of one week each during the winter period (October to April), for a total duration of 7 months. 14 action periods ON (warming standard procedure + body warmer) and 14 control periods OFF (warming standard procedure) will be run in random order for each center.