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. 2023 Oct 5;2023(10):CD013456. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013456.pub2

NCT03429166.

Study name Public title: Connecting women to care: home‐based psychotherapy for women with MST living in rural areas (CWC)
Scientific title: Connecting women to care: home‐based psychotherapy for women with MST living in rural areas
Methods Study design: randomised trial
Location/setting: USA
Participants Sample size: 170 female veterans (target)
Inclusion criteria
  • Veteran

  • A positive screen for MST

  • A positive PTSD screen defined as PC‐PTSD cutoff of > 3


Exclusion criteria
  • Substance abuse not in remission for at least 3 months

  • Current psychotic symptoms

    • Unmedicated mania or bipolar disorder

    • Prominent current suicidal or homicidal ideation

  • Cognitive impairment indicated by chart diagnoses or observable cognitive difficulties

  • Current involvement in a violent relationship defined as more than casual contact (e.g. dating or living with an abusive partner)


Recruitment status: recruiting
Interventions Experimental: Non‐trauma‐focused treatment (skills training in affective and interpersonal regulation)
Active comparator: Non‐trauma‐focused treatment (present centred‐therapy)
Outcomes
  1. PTSD (timing of assessment: 26 weeks)

  2. Interpersonal support (timing of assessment: 26 weeks)

  3. Interpersonal problems (timing of assessment: 26 weeks)

  4. Difficulties in emotion regulation (timing of assessment: 26 weeks)

  5. Depression (timing of assessment: 26 weeks)

  6. Anxiety (timing of assessment: 26 weeks)

Starting date Study start date: 3 September 2018
Study end date: 31 March 2022 (estimated)
Contact information Name(s): Marylene Cloitre, PhD
E‐mail: not reported
Notes Trial registry:ClinicalTrials.Gov
Trial registration number:NCT03429166
Funding source: VA Office of Research and Development