Retention in Individual Trauma-Focused Treatment Following Family-Based Treatment Among US Veterans.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite the availability of several empirically supported trauma-focused interventions, retention in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) psychotherapy is poor. Preliminary efficacy data shows that brief, family-based interventions may improve treatment retention in a veteran's individual PTSD treatment, although whether this occurs in routine clinical practice is not established.

Objective

To characterize receipt of family therapy among veterans diagnosed with PTSD and evaluate whether participation in family therapy is associated with an increased likelihood of completing individual trauma-focused treatment.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study used the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Informatics and Computing Infrastruct

SUBMITTER: Dodge J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10739069 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature