What's in a treatment name? How people with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms interpret and react to PTSD treatment names.

Autor: Larsen SE; National Center for PTSD, White River Junction, Vermont, USA.; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA., Ranney RM; San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco, California, USA.; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.; Sierra Pacific Mental Illness Research Education, and Clinical Center, San Francisco, California, USA., Matteo R; National Center for PTSD, White River Junction, Vermont, USA., Grubbs KM; Center for Mental Health Outcomes Research (CeMHOR), Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (CAVHS), Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.; Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA., Hamblen JL; National Center for PTSD, White River Junction, Vermont, USA.; Department of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of traumatic stress [J Trauma Stress] 2024 Oct 21. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Oct 21.
DOI: 10.1002/jts.23108
Abstrakt: Prior research has rarely examined how people understand or react to the names of psychological treatments. In the case of evidence-based psychotherapies for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), such reactions may be relevant to the low rates of uptake of such treatments. Participants who screened positive for PTSD (n = 887) completed questions assessing their initial reactions to PTSD treatment names as well as how a different name would affect their openness to treatment. In addition, they gave brief responses to open-ended questions about the reason for their initial reactions, and content analysis was used to better understand these reasons. The results indicated that among the treatment name options, cognitive processing therapy (CPT) and present-centered therapy (PCT) were viewed most positively. Approximately 40% of the sample preferred plain language alternatives for treatment names. Content analyses focused on descriptions of the treatments-which could be accurate or inaccurate-as well as whether respondents evaluated a treatment name itself as positive or negative. Some names conveyed treatments more accurately (e.g., CPT and written exposure therapy) than others (e.g., eye movement desensitization and reprocessing and prolonged exposure [PE]). Some names were also evaluated more positively (e.g., PCT) than others (e.g., PE). The general term "trauma-focused therapy" was seen as positive and clear. Addressing the ways patients react to psychological terms and treatment names could help clarify misperceptions about evidence-based psychotherapies and promote more widespread uptake of effective treatments for PTSD.
(© 2024 International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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