Developments of prolonged exposure in treatment effect of post-traumatic stress disorder and controlling dropout rate: A meta-analytic review.

Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
Yaoguang ZhouWeizhi Liu

Abstract

Prolonged exposure (PE) has been proved as an efficacious psychological treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). There are mainly two changed formats of PE: the modified PE (mPE) and the PE combined with drug (PE/d). Symptom reduction following these two PE training formats has been reported in the patients with PTSD. However, very little is focusing on the direct comparison of mPE + PE/d and PE. Therefore, this paper aims to compare the mPE + PE/d with PE on the PTSD treatment effect and the dropout rate directly through the meta-analysis. Eighteen studies with total sample size of 1,397 met the final inclusion criteria. The results showed that mPE + PE/d had significantly lower posttreatment PTSD severity than control group (relaxation, wait list, etc.). There was no significant difference between mPE + PE/d and PE on the posttreatment, the follow-up PTSD score, and the posttreatment dropout rate. Compared with PE, lower PTSD symptoms and marginally lower dropout rate following the treatment were observed in the PE/d group. PE/d yielded a significantly larger effect size than mPE when compared with PE on the posttreatment PTSD symptom severity. The significance of the above results would not be changed even if stu...Continue Reading

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