Effect of Written Exposure Therapy vs Cognitive Processing Therapy on Increasing Treatment Efficiency Among Military Service Members With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Noninferiority Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs more commonly among military service members than among civilians; however, despite the availability of several evidence-based treatments, there is a need for more efficient evidence-based PTSD treatments to better address the needs of service members. Written exposure therapy is a brief PTSD intervention that consists of 5 sessions with no between-session assignments, has demonstrated efficacy, and is associated with low treatment dropout rates, but prior randomized clinical trials of this intervention have focused on civilian populations.

Objective

To investigate whether the brief intervention, written exposure therapy, is noninferior in the treatment of PTSD vs the more time-intensive cognitive processing therapy amon

SUBMITTER: Sloan DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8753496 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature