A Rater-blinded RCT to Compare Effectiveness of EMDR vs TAU in Patients With First Episode Psychosis and History of Psychological Trauma

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The main objective of this project is to analyze whether EMDR therapy, as an adjuvant to usual treatment, is effective in reducing post-traumatic stress and psychotic/affective symptoms in patients with a FEP and comorbid psychological trauma associated with first hospital admission and / or previous stressful life event.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Parc de Salut Mar
• Collaborators: Althaia Xarxa Assistencial Universitària de Manresa; Consorci Hospitalari de Vic; Hospital Mutua de Terrassa

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• age ≥16 years old

• presence of one or more traumatic events, causing symptoms associated with the trauma (Impact of Event Scale-Revised >0 and Subjective Units of Distress >5), but it is not necessary that traumatic events meet DSM-5 criteria for PTSD

• psychotic symptoms/psychiatric hospitalization will be considered a traumatic event when the criteria for a trauma-related disorder or stress factors according to DSM-V (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Acute Stress Disorder, and Other Trauma-related Disorder and unspecified stress factors) are also met

• ability to read and write in Spanish.

Exclusion Criteria:

• suicidal risk, to be operated on the basis of: suicide risk scale - suicidal risk module scale MINI≥ 1 or suicide attempt in the last six months

• presence of organic brain diseases

• have received trauma-focused therapy in the past 2 years.