Evaluation of Restory - an Online Trauma Treatment for Victims of Sexual Abuse

Recruiting now · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Sexual Abuse

In brief

This project aims to evaluate Restory - a newly developed anonymous, iCBT prolonged exposure therapy program specifically tailored for victims of sexual abuse - using a pre-registered randomized controlled trial with waitlist control. The primary research question is whether Restory is more effective than a waitlist control in reducing PTSD symptom severity score, as measured by PCL-5.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07610187

Run by

Karolinska Institutet

People needed

140

Starts

2026-05-04

Expected to finish

2027-11-04

Last updated by the study team

2026-08-07

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 18+ years
• exposure to sexual violence where a minimum of 1 month has passed since the incident
• self-reported total PCL-5 of minimum 30
• current stable dose of psychotropic medication (for at least 4 weeks) or medication free
• sufficient Swedish skills
• willingness and availability to participate

You may not qualify if…

• Ongoing trauma-related threat (e.g. living with a violent spouse)
• severe psychiatric illness requiring immediate alternative treatment (such as high acute suicide risk or presence of psychotic episode, assessed during screening interview)
• current participation in other trauma-focused CBT or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
• current benzodiazepine treatment
• no trauma memory

Where it is running

• Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet — Stockholm, Sweden (enrolling)

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