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Benchmarking quality of life to posttraumatic stress disorder symptom changes in cognitive processing therapy. J Anxiety Disord 2023 Jan;93:102647

Date

11/28/2022

Pubmed ID

36436386

DOI

10.1016/j.janxdis.2022.102647

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85142541048 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   4 Citations

Abstract

Although there is ample evidence that PTSD is effectively treated by first-line therapies such as Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), it is less clear to what degree these treatments improve quality of life (QOL), a common presenting concern of treatment-seeking individuals (Rosen et al., 2013). Only two studies, both conducted in military veteran samples, have examined the magnitude of PTSD symptom change needed in order to achieve corresponding changes in QOL during treatment. The current study aimed to replicate and extend these two previous studies by benchmarking multi-faceted QOL in a civilian sample of primarily female interpersonal violence survivors (N = 115) treated with CPT. We grouped participants into categories of increasingly greater PTSD symptom change: no response, response, loss of diagnosis, and remission. Outcomes were clinically meaningful change and good endpoint across five measures of QOL. Some QOL measures showed clinically meaningful change and/or good endpoint after a response to treatment or loss of diagnosis, but only remission from PTSD was associated with both clinically meaningful change and a good endpoint across all QOL indicators. These findings add to the emerging literature showing that treating PTSD to remission may maximize the likelihood of improvements in quality of life.

Author List

Hamrick L, Larsen SE, Sippel LM, Sherman K, Resick P, Galovski T

Author

Sadie E. Larsen PhD Associate Professor in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin




MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Benchmarking
Female
Humans
Quality of Life
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
Veterans