Building Experience for Treating Trauma and Enhancing Resilience (BETTER)

Description

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).

Conditions

PTSD

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

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).

Delivering Written Exposure Therapy for PTSD in Underserved Primary Care Settings

Building Experience for Treating Trauma and Enhancing Resilience (BETTER)

Condition
PTSD
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Albion

Oak Orchard Health Center (Albion), Albion, New York, United States, 14411

Brooklyn

Brownsville Health Center (Genesis and Ashford - BGA), Brooklyn, New York, United States, 11212

Brooklyn

Brownsville Health Center (Main), Brooklyn, New York, United States, 11212

Brooklyn

Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health Center (Main), Brooklyn, New York, United States, 11216

Brooklyn

Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health Center (Sterling and Broadway), Brooklyn, New York, United States, 11216

Corfu

Oak Orchard Health (Pembroke), Corfu, New York, United States, 14036

Ossining

Open Door Family Medical Center (Brewster/Ossining), Ossining, New York, United States, 10562

Port Chester

Open Door Family Medical Center (Mamaroneck//Port Chester), Port Chester, New York, United States, 10573

Rocky Mount

OIC Family Medical Center (Fairview), Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States, 27801

Rocky Mount

OIC Family Medical Center (Happy Hill), Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States, 27804

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * 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.
  • * 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).

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

RAND,

Jessica Higby, STUDY_DIRECTOR, RAND

Study Record Dates

2026-06-14