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Treatment of trauma-affected refugees with venlafaxine versus sertraline combined with psychotherapy - a randomised study
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of trauma-related psychiatric disorders is high among refugees. Despite this, little is known about the effect of pharmacological treatment for this patient group. The objective of the present study was therefore to examine differences in the effects of venlafaxine and ser...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5101827/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27825327 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-1081-5 |
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author | Sonne, Charlotte Carlsson, Jessica Bech, Per Elklit, Ask Mortensen, Erik Lykke |
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description | BACKGROUND: The prevalence of trauma-related psychiatric disorders is high among refugees. Despite this, little is known about the effect of pharmacological treatment for this patient group. The objective of the present study was therefore to examine differences in the effects of venlafaxine and sertraline on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression and functional impairment in trauma-affected refugees. METHODS: The study was a randomised pragmatic trial comparing venlafaxine and sertraline in combination with psychotherapy and social counselling. PTSD symptoms were measured on the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire – part IV, which was the primary outcome measure. Other outcome measures included: Hopkins Symptom Check List-25 (depression and anxiety), Social Adjustment Scale – short version (social functioning), WHO-5 Well-being Index (quality of life), Crisis Support Scale (support from social network), Sheehan Disability Scale (disability in three areas of functioning), Hamilton Depression and Anxiety scale, the somatisation items of the Symptoms Checklist-90, Global Assessment of Functioning scales and the summarised score of pain in four body areas rated on visual analogue scales. RESULTS: Two hundred seven adult refugee patients were included in the trial (98 in the venlafaxine and 109 in the sertraline group). Of these, 195 patients were eligible for intention-to-treat analyses. Small but significant pre-treatment to post-treatment differences were found on the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire and a number of other ratings in both groups. On the primary outcome measure, no difference was found in treatment effect between the sertraline and venlafaxine group. A significant group difference was found in favour of sertraline on the Sheehan Disability Scale. CONCLUSION: Sertraline had a slightly better outcome than venlafaxine on some of the secondary outcome measures, but not on the primary outcome measure. Furthermore, a higher percentage of dropouts was found in the venlafaxine group compared to the sertraline group. Although this could indicate that sertraline was better tolerated, which is supported by other studies, a final conclusion on tolerability cannot be drawn from the current study due to lack of systematic reporting of side effects. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01569685. Registration date: 28/2/12 ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12888-016-1081-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-51018272016-11-10 Treatment of trauma-affected refugees with venlafaxine versus sertraline combined with psychotherapy - a randomised study Sonne, Charlotte Carlsson, Jessica Bech, Per Elklit, Ask Mortensen, Erik Lykke BMC Psychiatry Research Article BACKGROUND: The prevalence of trauma-related psychiatric disorders is high among refugees. Despite this, little is known about the effect of pharmacological treatment for this patient group. The objective of the present study was therefore to examine differences in the effects of venlafaxine and sertraline on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression and functional impairment in trauma-affected refugees. METHODS: The study was a randomised pragmatic trial comparing venlafaxine and sertraline in combination with psychotherapy and social counselling. PTSD symptoms were measured on the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire – part IV, which was the primary outcome measure. Other outcome measures included: Hopkins Symptom Check List-25 (depression and anxiety), Social Adjustment Scale – short version (social functioning), WHO-5 Well-being Index (quality of life), Crisis Support Scale (support from social network), Sheehan Disability Scale (disability in three areas of functioning), Hamilton Depression and Anxiety scale, the somatisation items of the Symptoms Checklist-90, Global Assessment of Functioning scales and the summarised score of pain in four body areas rated on visual analogue scales. RESULTS: Two hundred seven adult refugee patients were included in the trial (98 in the venlafaxine and 109 in the sertraline group). Of these, 195 patients were eligible for intention-to-treat analyses. Small but significant pre-treatment to post-treatment differences were found on the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire and a number of other ratings in both groups. On the primary outcome measure, no difference was found in treatment effect between the sertraline and venlafaxine group. A significant group difference was found in favour of sertraline on the Sheehan Disability Scale. CONCLUSION: Sertraline had a slightly better outcome than venlafaxine on some of the secondary outcome measures, but not on the primary outcome measure. Furthermore, a higher percentage of dropouts was found in the venlafaxine group compared to the sertraline group. Although this could indicate that sertraline was better tolerated, which is supported by other studies, a final conclusion on tolerability cannot be drawn from the current study due to lack of systematic reporting of side effects. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01569685. Registration date: 28/2/12 ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12888-016-1081-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2016-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5101827/ /pubmed/27825327 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-1081-5 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Sonne, Charlotte Carlsson, Jessica Bech, Per Elklit, Ask Mortensen, Erik Lykke Treatment of trauma-affected refugees with venlafaxine versus sertraline combined with psychotherapy - a randomised study |
title | Treatment of trauma-affected refugees with venlafaxine versus sertraline combined with psychotherapy - a randomised study |
title_full | Treatment of trauma-affected refugees with venlafaxine versus sertraline combined with psychotherapy - a randomised study |
title_fullStr | Treatment of trauma-affected refugees with venlafaxine versus sertraline combined with psychotherapy - a randomised study |
title_full_unstemmed | Treatment of trauma-affected refugees with venlafaxine versus sertraline combined with psychotherapy - a randomised study |
title_short | Treatment of trauma-affected refugees with venlafaxine versus sertraline combined with psychotherapy - a randomised study |
title_sort | treatment of trauma-affected refugees with venlafaxine versus sertraline combined with psychotherapy - a randomised study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5101827/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27825327 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-1081-5 |
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