Adapting Treatment Delivery to Improve Retention in Evidence-Based PTSD Treatment
Key facts
- Who runs it
- VA Office of Research and Development
- Where
- Durham, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Status
- Completed
- People taking part
- 30 people enrolled
- Started
- 24 Jun 2024
- Ended
- 15 Sept 2025
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- EBP-Massed
- EBP-TAU
- Record updated
- 13 January 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Veterans aged 18 years or older
- meets criteria for current PTSD
- willingness to be randomized to either condition (e.g., EBP-Massed or EBP-TAU)
- decision to receive CPT or PE in a treatment planning session with a Durham Trauma Recovery Program clinic provider
- ability to provide informed consent
Who cannot take part
- currently in a concurrent trauma-focused evidence-based treatment for PTSD
- High acute suicide risk
- active manic symptoms that would likely interfere with treatment
- active psychotic symptoms that would likely interfere with treatment
Where in United States
- Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NCDurham, United States
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is prevalent among Veterans and effective evidence-based psychotherapies (EBPs) for PTSD have been implemented within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). However, retention in PTSD EBPs is poor. Premature dropout is associated with worse clinical outcomes and greater healthcare utilization. Delivery of PTSD EBPs in a massed format, typically three or more days per week delivered within a month, have shown promise for increasing retention. The present study is a pilot feasibility and acceptability study comparing massed PTSD treatment to treatment as usual (e.g., typically weekly treatment).
The 2 groups in the trial
- EBP-MassedTreatment being tested
PTSD evidence-based psychotherapies are delivered in a massed format (e.g., intended be delivered at least three times per week).
- EBP-TAUExisting treatment, for comparison
PTSD evidence-based psychotherapies are delivered treatment as usual, which is typically once per week.
Data and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Adapting Treatment Delivery to Improve Retention in Evidence-Based PTSD Treatment (CDA 21-191)
- Record updated
- 13 January 2026