Child and parent secondary outcomes in stepped care versus standard care treatment for childhood trauma.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Stepped care trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (SC-TF-CBT) is comparable in efficacy to standard TF-CBT for child posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), but less is known about the effectiveness of SC-TF-CBT on child and parent secondary outcomes. The aim of this community-based randomized clinical trial was to compare child- and caregiver-secondary outcomes among SC-TF-CBT versus TF-CBT participants.

Methods

Children (ages 4 to 12) with PTSS and their caregivers were randomly assigned to either SC-TF-CBT (n = 91) or TF-CBT (n = 92). Secondary child (internalizing and externalizing behavior problems, anger outburst and sleep disturbances) and parent outcomes (PTSS, depression symptoms, and parenting stress) were measured at baseline, post-treatment and

SUBMITTER: Salloum A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9035131 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature