Piloting Acute Care to Primary Care Linkage of Safety Net Patients

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2011-11-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This pilot study will evaluate the implementation of a stepped care intervention that combines Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, psychotropic medications, and information technology innovations at a level 1 trauma center to community linkage components to reduce the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and related comorbidities in injured trauma survivors treated in the emergency department and surgical inpatient settings.

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Washington

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• English-speaking

• Admitted to Harborview Medical Center with injuries sufficiently severe enough to require inpatient admission

• Experienced a traumatic injury

• Exhibits symptoms of PTSD while in the hospital ward

• Low-income

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of head, spinal, or other injury that may prevent participation in the ward interview

• Requires immediate intervention due to conditions such as self-inflicted injury, active psychosis, or active mania

• Currently incarcerated

• Likely to face criminal charges

• Lives outside of the state of Washington

• Not low-income