Open AccessChildhood trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder in a real-world Veterans Affairs clinic: Examining treatment preferences and dropout.
Author(s) -
Shan R. Miles,
Karin E. Thompson
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
psychological trauma
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.059
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1942-9681
pISSN - 1942-969X
DOI - 10.1037/tra0000132
Subject(s) - veterans affairs , psycinfo , cognitive processing therapy , psychiatry , exposure therapy , clinical psychology , posttraumatic stress , medicine , psychology , medline , cognitive behavioral therapy , cognition , anxiety , political science , law
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has promoted large-scale dissemination efforts of evidence-based psychotherapies (EBPs) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In spite of efforts to make gold-standard treatments available to veterans, few veterans with PTSD receive a full course of psychotherapy. It is unclear if type of trauma experienced is related to treatment initiation and completion. This study aimed to identify patient factors, including experiencing childhood trauma that related to treatment preferences and dropout in a real-world VA PTSD clinic.