Building Experience for Treating Trauma and Enhancing Resilience (BETTER)

Running, not enrolling · Not applicable

Conditions studied: PTSD

In brief

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a significant problem among underserved populations who receive care in community health centers. Several evidence-based psychotherapies for PTSD are not practical given the time and resources required for these approaches. This research will examine whether Written Exposure Therapy (WET), a brief and well-tolerated therapy approach, delivered within collaborative primary care is effective and can be implemented successfully within a collaborative care (CC) intervention. The primary aims of the proposed study are to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of delivering WET into CoCM to improve the management of PTSD among underserved primary care patients in Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05330442

Run by

RAND

People needed

720

Starts

2022-04-25

Expected to finish

2026-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2025-08-13

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients will be included if they are 18 years of age or older, speak English or Spanish, have a scheduled or walk-in appointment with a participating primary care provider (PCP), have no obvious physical or cognitive impairment that would make them unable to complete the assessment (as indicated by confusion or inability to understand the questions), and consider the FQHC to be their usual source of care.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients will be excluded if they have active psychosis (as indicated by inability to concentrate, having delusions or hallucinations) or high suicide risk (as indicated by having a current plan or means).

Where it is running

• Oak Orchard Health Center (Albion) — Albion, New York, United States
• Brownsville Health Center (Genesis and Ashford - BGA) — Brooklyn, New York, United States
• Brownsville Health Center (Main) — Brooklyn, New York, United States
• Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health Center (Main) — Brooklyn, New York, United States
• Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health Center (Sterling and Broadway) — Brooklyn, New York, United States
• Oak Orchard Health (Pembroke) — Corfu, New York, United States
• Open Door Family Medical Center (Brewster/Ossining) — Ossining, New York, United States
• Open Door Family Medical Center (Mamaroneck//Port Chester) — Port Chester, New York, United States
• OIC Family Medical Center (Fairview) — Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States
• OIC Family Medical Center (Happy Hill) — Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States

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