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PTSD-Focused Relationship Enhancement Therapy for Returning Veterans and Their Partners - NCT00827879-72701(Clinical Trial 265181)



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City:  Fayetteville
State:  
AR
Zip Code: 72701
Conditions: Aggression - Post Traumatic Stress Disorders
Purpose: The purpose of the project is to develop and test a couples-based relationship enhancement group intervention for married or partnered Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) veterans to prevent the perpetration of intimate partner aggression (IPA) among participants with PTSD.
Study summary: The focus of this project is to produce a well-defined and standardized intervention, labeled PTSD-Focused Relationship Enhancement Therapy (PF-RET), that can improve intimate relationship satisfaction, decrease the likelihood of relationship aggression, increase the intimacy and closeness of the relationship, and help with anger management. We hope to learn more about how to improve relationships, how to prevent anger and violence, and about what factors help people successfully complete treatment. PF-RET will incorporate components of several interventions for PTSD and IPA and will target mechanisms implicated in the PTSD-IPA association. The development of this type of integrated intervention is critical due to high rates of PTSD-IPA co-occurrence and the pressing need to efficiently address both problems among military veterans. Specific aims of this project are: (1) to develop and standardize PF-RET for male combat veterans with PTSD, including the development of a clinician-friendly intervention manual detailing PF-RET, along with intervention adherence measures and therapist training and certification procedures; (2) to test the efficacy of PF-RET for OEF/OIF veterans by conducting a multiple site randomized trial comparing 10 sessions of PF-RET to 10 sessions of a supportive group therapy (ST) condition; and (3) to explore differences in compliance and process factors across conditions.
Criteria: Inclusion Criteria: - couples must have been married or cohabitating for at least one year - veterans must experience symptoms of PTSD - veterans and their partners must be over the age of 18 - both members of the couple report no occurrence of physical aggression during the past year in their relationship on the Revised Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS-2; Straus et al, 1996) - partners average at or below a score of 29 on the 6-item Quality of Marriage Index (QMI; Norton, 1983) - both members of the couple provide research consent Exclusion Criteria: - reading difficulties prevent valid completion of the assessment instruments - the participant evidences severe organicity or active psychosis - the participant expresses prominent suicidal or homicidal ideation - the participant meets diagnostic criteria for alcohol and/or drug dependence, if not in early full remission or sustained partial remission
Study is available at: University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
United States

Primary Contact:
Sherry Walling, Ph.D.
Email: sherry.walling@va.gov
Phone: 857-364-6197
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Date Processed: March 22, 2011
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