40
Participants
Start Date
May 31, 2016
Primary Completion Date
June 30, 2018
Study Completion Date
August 31, 2019
Web-PE Therapy
Ten 60-minute psychotherapy sessions over 8 weeks, focused on gradually confronting distressing trauma-related memories and reminders. Web-PE is an internet-based version of prolonged exposure (PE) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Therapist-Delivered Present-Centered Therapy
Ten 60-minute psychotherapy sessions over 8 weeks, focused on identifying and solving day-to-day problems as they are brought up by the participants. PCT is a manualized therapy that has been used as active control condition in several CBT studies. It provides a credible comparison therapy to control for nonspecific therapeutic factors so that observed effects of Web-PE can be attributed to its specific ingredients beyond the benefits of good therapy.
Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta
Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, Killeen
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio
University of Texas
OTHER
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
FED
University of Pennsylvania
OTHER