An interventional study of Live workshop and AI-enhanced Web-based training in PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, sponsored by The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-05.
Sponsored by The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other
This research study tests strategies to train behavioral health providers in Written Exposure Therapy (WET), an evidence-based treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). There are a number of evidence-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, most behavioral health providers have not received training in these PTSD treatments and do not offer them regularly to their patients.
The researchers hope to learn about the optimal way to train behavioral providers in this type of treatment. This study is designed to determine the comparative effectiveness of different training strategies on key outcomes such as how much competency providers develop in the therapy and to how many patients they deliver the therapy. This study will help the researchers understand if we can help more providers learn to competently delivery Written Exposure Therapy by using strategies that are more convenient and cost less money, including web-based and AI-facilitated training supports. This study will also help us learn which training strategies work best for which providers so that in the future we can make personalized training recommendations.
This study will enroll behavioral health providers (i.e., professional therapists) and test a training program for Written Exposure Therapy that includes
This randomized clinical trial will compare web/AI training, among providers who serve Veterans and Service Members, to standard Written Exposure Therapy training (i.e., human-delivered live workshop and consultation calls) on provider, patient, and cost-effectiveness outcomes. There is no cross-over of conditions. Providers in both conditions will be eligible to earn continuing education credits and approval as Written Exposure Therapy Providers who have completed competency based training and two training cases.
200 studies on the registry are indexed under Combat Disorders; 90 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 300 is above the median of 72 across 167 interventional studies indexed under Combat Disorders.
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Exclusion Criteria:
1. has already completed formal training in Written Exposure Therapy
10-hour, live workshop over 2 days with a live trainer via video conferencing. There will also be twelve 1 hour calls with a live therapy consultant .
Behavioral: Live workshop · Behavioral: Consultation video calls
10-hour, live workshop over 2 days with a live trainer via video conferencing.There will also be approximately 12 hours of engagement with the AI training support tool (TherapyTrainer)
Behavioral: Live workshop · Behavioral: TherapyTrainer
AI enhanced Web-based training with no live meetings, but approximately 8-10 hours of asynchronous, self-paced training. There will also be twelve 1 hour calls with a live therapy consultant .
Behavioral: AI-enhanced Web-based training · Behavioral: Consultation video calls
AI enhanced Web-based training with no live meetings, but approximately 8-10 hours of asynchronous, self-paced training. There will also be approximately 12 hours of engagement with the AI training support tool (TherapyTrainer)
Behavioral: AI-enhanced Web-based training · Behavioral: TherapyTrainer
Approximately 10 hours (excluding breaks) over 2 days with a live trainer via video conferencing (e.g., Zoom)
No live meetings, but approximately 8-10 hours of asynchronous training at the learner's pace over about 1 month.
Twelve 1-hour calls with a live therapy consultant via videoconferencing (e.g., Zoom)
No live meetings, but approximately 12 hours of engaging with the AI training support tool (TherapyTrainer)
Also known as: AI Training Tool
Provider WET Competency
A 20-item multiple choice treatment knowledge assessment. Higher scores indicate greater knowledge of WET.
Time frame: Baseline to 7 months
Completion of Practice Cases
Number of participants that complete practice cases
Time frame: 4 months
Time to complete Practice Cases
Number of days to complete two training cases (real or simulated)
Time frame: 4 months
Plan to share: Yes — The PI will ensure all mechanisms used to share data will include proper plans and safeguards for the protection of privacy, confidentiality, and security for data dissemination and reuse (e.g., all data will be de-identified and will not be traceable to a specific study participant).
Supporting information: Study protocol, Statistical analysis plan
Time frame: At study completion and after data analysis is complete
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Started Aug 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Aug 2028, 24 months after the start.
Of 73 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Combat Disorders, half reached primary completion within 24 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 12 and three quarters within 44. This study's planned 24 months is close to that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 79 studies reached it within 25 months; a quarter within 12 and three quarters within 44.
How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.
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