Trauma-focused Group Music and Imagery With Traumatized Women

NCT ID: NCT03503526

Last Updated: 2021-01-19

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

45 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-08-13

Study Completion Date

2018-08-22

Brief Summary

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This study is a mixed methods randomized controlled trial (Wait List Control), that investigates the effects of Group Music and Imagery (GrpMI) therapy in the treatment of women suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or Complex PTSD.

The aim is to detect if the intervention has an effect on PTSD symptoms, dissociation, quality of life, and the capability of regulating the autonomic nervous system (ANS).

Detailed Description

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Participants are adult women suffering from PTSD or Complex PTSD (n=56) that are randomized to three months of weekly (12) sessions of trauma modified GrpMI therapy or no treatment for an equal amount of time (wait list control).

Primary outcome is pre, post and 3 months follow-up measures of PTSD checklist 5 (PCL-5).

Secondary outcome is pre, post and 3 months follow-up measures of dissociative experience scale (DES), positive state of mind scale (PSOM-S), Hopkins symptoms checklist (HSCL-25), somatoform dissociation questionnaire (SDQ-5), and reactivity and recovery of different physiological measures related to arousal regulation ability in a script driven imagery setting.

Conditions

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Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

A randomized wait list control study with a mixed methods design
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Music therapy treatment

An intervention consisting of 12 weekly sessions of trauma-focused treatment in form of group music and imagery therapy.

Receptive music therapy.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Receptive music therapy

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

12 weekly trauma-focused Group therapy sessions of a length of 2.5 hours. The core element is receptive music psychotherapy with music listening, art making, and other art based methods.

Wait List Control

No treatment for approximately 12 weeks.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Receptive music therapy

12 weekly trauma-focused Group therapy sessions of a length of 2.5 hours. The core element is receptive music psychotherapy with music listening, art making, and other art based methods.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Group Music and Imagery and Expressive Arts therapy

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* be suffering from PTSD/CPTSD,
* be sufficiently stabilised to tolerate being exposed to trauma treatment and listen to other subjects' stories,
* be able to speak good enough swedish to express themselves without an interpreter,
* have an interest in working with their problems using artistic languages,
* have an ability to work with symbolism and inner images.

Exclusion Criteria

* difficulties in understanding or making themselves understood in swedish,
* severe personality disorder or neuropsychiatric disorder,
* ongoing alcohol or drug abuse,
* psychotic disorder,
* suicidality,
* serious ongoing medical condition,
* serious psychosocial problems.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Kris- och Traumacentrum Sverige AB

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Council of the Danish Victims Fund

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Aalborg University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Gabriella Rudstam

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

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Other Identifiers

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15-910-00019

Identifier Type: OTHER_GRANT

Identifier Source: secondary_id

2015/895-31

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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