An interventional study of Expressive Writing and Control in Posttraumatic Stress Disorders, sponsored by University of Toronto. Completed at 1 site in Canada. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 65 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-05-12.
Sponsored by University of Toronto · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
The purpose of the present study is twofold. First, we will attempt to examine the role that emotion regulation and self-presentation play as potential moderators in the expressive writing paradigm. We hypothesize that expressive writing participants who demonstrate greater abilities to regulate their emotions at baseline will improve more on our outcome measures. We also hypothesize that those expressive writing participants who demonstrate higher levels of self-presentation at baseline will improve less on our outcome measures.
The second aim of the study has two related objectives. First, we will attempt to investigate whether the expressive writing intervention can increase and enhance an individual's emotion regulation abilities. Related to this, we will then go on to examine whether emotion regulation can be looked at as a potential mechanism of action in the expressive writing procedure. Related to these two objectives, we hypothesize that in comparison to the control group, participants in the expressive writing condition will show increases in their ability to regulate their emotions from baseline to four week follow up. Moreover, we predict that greater gains in emotion regulation abilities for the expressive writing participants will be significantly related to greater gains in outcome measures.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Behavioral: Expressive Writing
Behavioral: Control
Participants will write about their experienced trauma for 20 minutes on each of three consecutive days using techniques associated with expressive writing
Also known as: Emotional writing
Participants will write as factually as possible about an assigned trivial topic for 20 minutes on each of three consecutive days
Posttraumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale
Time frame: Initial session; One month follow-up
Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale
Time frame: Initial session; One month follow-up
Pennebaker Inventory of Limbic Languidness
Time frame: Initial session; One month follow-up
Beck Depression Inventory, Second Edition
Time frame: Initial session; One month follow-up
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