Baas 2017.

Study name	The optiMUM study
Methods	Multi‐centre RCT 2 2‐armed RCT Setting: one university hospital, two teaching hospitals and several community midwifery practices in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Participants	Inclusion criteria: Pregnant women between 8 and 20 weeks with PTSD or FOC Exclusion criteria "age <18 years old, current psychological treatment, intermediate or high suicide risk (based on the mini international neuropsychiatric interview‐plus; MINI‐plus), or severe psychotic disorder, such as schizophrenia or current psychosis (based on MINI‐plus)"
Interventions	Intervention: eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). "The EMDR therapy group will receive a maximum of three 90‐min sessions, in addition to standard care during pregnancy" Comparator: "standard care during pregnancy, with routine obstetrical checks. Assuming good clinical care, anxious pregnant women and those with traumatic childbirth experiences may receive more counselling compared to not‐anxious pregnant women, but will (probably) not be referred for EMDR therapy. Type and frequency of any form of professional care will be registered."
Outcomes	Primary outcome measures are severity of childbirth‐related PTSD or FoC symptoms. Secondary outcomes are percentage of PTSD diagnoses, percentage caesarean sections, subjective childbirth experience, obstetrical and neonatal complications, and healthcare costs.
Starting date	April 2015
Contact information	optimum@olvg.nl
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