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Effectiveness of Group-Delivered Cognitive Therapy and Treatment Length in Women Veterans with PTSD
The effectiveness and length of group-delivered cognitive treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was examined in a sample of women veterans. The sample included 271 primarily non-Hispanic white (61%) and Hispanic (25%) women veterans treated in 8-, 10-, or 12-group length sessions with m...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4219250/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25379266 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs4010031 |
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author | Castillo, Diane T. Lacefield, Katharine C’de Baca, Janet Blankenship, Abby Qualls, Clifford |
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description | The effectiveness and length of group-delivered cognitive treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was examined in a sample of women veterans. The sample included 271 primarily non-Hispanic white (61%) and Hispanic (25%) women veterans treated in 8-, 10-, or 12-group length sessions with manualized cognitive therapy for PTSD. Outcome was measured with the PTSD Symptom Checklist (PCL) in an intention-to-treat analysis (N = 271), in completer subjects (n = 172), and with group as the unit of analysis (n = 47 groups). Significant decreases in PTSD were found in the full sample (effect size [ES] range = 0.27 to 0.38), completers (ES range = 0.37 to 0.54), and group as the unit of analysis (ES range = 0.71 to 0.92), suggesting effectiveness of cognitive group treatment for PTSD. PCL scores significantly improved in the 8, 10, and 12 group lengths, with no differences between each. Clinical improvement showed a third decreasing 10 or more PCL points and 22% no longer meeting PTSD diagnostic criteria, with the best results in the 10-session group. The results suggest group-delivered cognitive therapy is an effective, efficient, time-limited treatment for PTSD. |
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spelling | pubmed-42192502014-11-06 Effectiveness of Group-Delivered Cognitive Therapy and Treatment Length in Women Veterans with PTSD Castillo, Diane T. Lacefield, Katharine C’de Baca, Janet Blankenship, Abby Qualls, Clifford Behav Sci (Basel) Article The effectiveness and length of group-delivered cognitive treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was examined in a sample of women veterans. The sample included 271 primarily non-Hispanic white (61%) and Hispanic (25%) women veterans treated in 8-, 10-, or 12-group length sessions with manualized cognitive therapy for PTSD. Outcome was measured with the PTSD Symptom Checklist (PCL) in an intention-to-treat analysis (N = 271), in completer subjects (n = 172), and with group as the unit of analysis (n = 47 groups). Significant decreases in PTSD were found in the full sample (effect size [ES] range = 0.27 to 0.38), completers (ES range = 0.37 to 0.54), and group as the unit of analysis (ES range = 0.71 to 0.92), suggesting effectiveness of cognitive group treatment for PTSD. PCL scores significantly improved in the 8, 10, and 12 group lengths, with no differences between each. Clinical improvement showed a third decreasing 10 or more PCL points and 22% no longer meeting PTSD diagnostic criteria, with the best results in the 10-session group. The results suggest group-delivered cognitive therapy is an effective, efficient, time-limited treatment for PTSD. MDPI 2014-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4219250/ /pubmed/25379266 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs4010031 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Castillo, Diane T. Lacefield, Katharine C’de Baca, Janet Blankenship, Abby Qualls, Clifford Effectiveness of Group-Delivered Cognitive Therapy and Treatment Length in Women Veterans with PTSD |
title | Effectiveness of Group-Delivered Cognitive Therapy and Treatment Length in Women Veterans with PTSD |
title_full | Effectiveness of Group-Delivered Cognitive Therapy and Treatment Length in Women Veterans with PTSD |
title_fullStr | Effectiveness of Group-Delivered Cognitive Therapy and Treatment Length in Women Veterans with PTSD |
title_full_unstemmed | Effectiveness of Group-Delivered Cognitive Therapy and Treatment Length in Women Veterans with PTSD |
title_short | Effectiveness of Group-Delivered Cognitive Therapy and Treatment Length in Women Veterans with PTSD |
title_sort | effectiveness of group-delivered cognitive therapy and treatment length in women veterans with ptsd |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4219250/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25379266 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs4010031 |
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