Behavioral activation for veterans with co-occurring alcohol use disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder: Basis and methodology for a pilot randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nearly 2 million U.S. veterans live with co-occurring alcohol use disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder (AUD/PTSD). Extant AUD/PTSD treatments emphasize symptom reduction, sometimes overlooking psychosocial functioning improvements, and have dropout rates as high as 50 %. Additionally, current approaches to measuring psychosocial functioning are limited to self-report. This study protocol describes a 1:1 parallel, two-arm, pilot randomized controlled trial comparing Behavioral Activation (BA) psychotherapy to Relapse Prevention (RP) psychotherapy for veterans with AUD/PTSD.

Methods

Forty-six veterans with AUD/PTSD will be block-randomized to eight weekly, virtual, hour-long individual sessions of BA or RP. Clinical interview, self-report, and geospatial asses

SUBMITTER: Blakey SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11531389 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature