NCT06730867Completed
Piloting Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy in People Living With HIV and Trauma
Piloting Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in People Living With HIV and Trauma
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 24 Jun 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy is a time-limited trauma-response therapy that treats symptoms of stress that result disturbing life experiences. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy has been used to treat trauma-related symptoms for people living with HIV. People living with HIV tend to experience higher psychiatric morbidity rates of depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress symptoms than the general population. However, even with case studies of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy on people living with HIV, there is no definitive protocol for the clinician as they navigate the therapy. This study aims to assess the feasibility and acceptability of delivering an Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy protocol tailored for people living with HIV and trauma. 20 people living with HIV will be recruited to participate in an eight-week Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy. The therapy will be focused on assessing the viability of an Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing protocol that is specified for people living with HIV.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 14 (actual)
- First submitted
- 20 Nov 2024
- Start date
- Jul 2024
- Primary completion date
- Apr 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT06730867
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 14
- From Jul 2024 to the primary completion date, Apr 2025
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- have previously received EMDR therapy.
Other illness
- diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder
Other
- have current suicidal ideation
- diagnosis with schizophrenia
- have active psychosis
- have current severe major depression
Who the study is looking for
- Individuals that have lived with HIV for over a year.
- Age 18 or older
- Have experienced any type of trauma in their lifetime (for example: physical abuse, verbal abuse, physical neglect, emotional neglect, mental illness, substance addiction, imprisonment, witnessing or experiencing violence, natural disasters)
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nashville | United States | Unknown status |
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