A Randomized Clinical Trial of Primary Care Brief Mindfulness Training for Veterans with PTSD - PubMed (original) (raw)

Randomized Controlled Trial

doi: 10.1002/jclp.22241. Epub 2015 Nov 27.

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Randomized Controlled Trial

A Randomized Clinical Trial of Primary Care Brief Mindfulness Training for Veterans with PTSD

Kyle Possemato et al. J Clin Psychol. 2016 Mar.

Abstract

Objectives: Primary care (PC) patients typically do not receive adequate posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment. This study tested if a brief mindfulness training (BMT) offered in PC can decrease PTSD severity.

Method: VA PC patients with PTSD (N = 62) were recruited for a randomized clinical trial comparing PCBMT with PC treatment as usual. PCBMT is a 4-session program adapted from mindfulness-based stress reduction.

Results: PTSD severity decreased in both conditions, although PCBMT completers reported significantly larger decreases in PTSD and depression from pre- to posttreatment and maintained gains at the 8-week follow-up compared with the control group. Exploratory analyses revealed that the describing, nonjudging, and acting with awareness facets of mindfulness may account for decreases in PTSD.

Conclusion: Our data support preliminary efficacy of BMT for Veterans with PTSD. Whether PCBMT facilitates engagement into, or improves outcomes of, full-length empirically supported treatment for PTSD remains to be evaluated.

Keywords: PTSD; Veterans; brief intervention; mindfulness; primary care.

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