Prevention of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder by Early Treatment

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2008-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To prospectively evaluate the effect of early treatment (cognitive therapy (CT), cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and escitalopram (SSRI) in preventing the occurrence of post-traumatic stress disorder in recent survivors of traumatic events.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Hadassah Medical Organization
• Treatments: Citalopram; Dexetimide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adults survivors of traumatic events

Exclusion Criteria:

• Traumatic brain injury

• Lifetime psychosis

• Life time (prior) PTSD

• Medical conditions forbidding SSRIs