Article
A Randomized Clinical Trial of Primary Care Brief Mindfulness Training for Veterans With PTSD
Journal of Clinical Psychology
(2015)
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.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2015
DOI
10.1002/jclp.22241
Citation Information
Dessa Bergen-Cico. "A Randomized Clinical Trial of Primary Care Brief Mindfulness Training for Veterans With PTSD" Journal of Clinical Psychology Vol. 72 Iss. 3 (2015) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/dessa_bergen-cico/21/
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