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• Karatzias T, Hyland P, Bradley A, Fyvie C, Logan K, Easton P, Thomas J, Philips S, Bisson JI, Roberts NP, Cloitre M, Shevlin M. Is Self-Compassion a Worthwhile Therapeutic Target for ICD-11 Complex PTSD (CPTSD)? Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy. 2018 Oct 2; 1-13.
• Elbogen EB, Dennis PA, Van Voorhees EE, Blakey SM, Johnson JL, Johnson SC, Wagner HR, Hamer RM, Beckham JC, Manly T, Belger A. Cognitive Rehabilitation With Mobile Technology and Social Support for Veterans With TBI and PTSD: A Randomized Clinical Trial. The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation. 2018 Aug 30.
• Hundt NE, Smith TL, Fortney JC, Cully JA, Stanley MA. A qualitative study of veterans' mixed emotional reactions to receiving a PTSD diagnosis. Psychological Services. 2018 Jul 30.
• Owen JE, Kuhn E, Jaworski BK, McGee-Vincent P, Juhasz K, Hoffman JE, Rosen C. VA mobile apps for PTSD and related problems: public health resources for veterans and those who care for them. mHealth. 2018 Jul 26; 4:28.
• Pyne JM, Constans JI, Nanney JT, Wiederhold MD, Gibson DP, Kimbrell T, Kramer TL, Pitcock JA, Han X, Williams DK, Chartrand D, Gevirtz RN, Spira J, Wiederhold BK, McCraty R, McCune TR. Heart Rate Variability and Cognitive Bias Feedback Interventions to Prevent Post-deployment PTSD: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial. Military medicine. 2018 Jul 18.

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• Mantram Repetition Effective in Treatment of Veterans with PTSD
  Mantram teaches people to intentionally slow down thoughts and to practice “one-pointed attention” by silently repeating a personalized mantram – a word or phrase with spiritual meaning. This study compared Mantram therapy to Present-Centered Therapy – a supportive, problem-solving, non-trauma-focused treatment for PTSD. Findings showed that among Veterans with PTSD, individually-delivered Mantram...
  
  Date: June 20, 2018
• Medical Records Flag for Suicide Risk Increases VA Healthcare Visits among Veterans with Substance Use Disorder
  VA has identified suicide prevention as a top priority and established policies to include high-risk suicide patient record flags (PRFs) in the electronic medical record to alert providers of patient risk and increase healthcare contacts. This study sought to identify predictors of new PRFs and to describe healthcare use before and after PRF initiation among VA patients who had received a substanc...
  
  Date: June 8, 2018
• Evaluating Care Coordination Program for Pregnant Veterans
  The VA Maternity Care Coordinator Telephone Care Program (MCC-TCP) was created to support MCCs and includes outlines to guide up to eight calls with Veterans on topics such as VA maternity care benefits, chronic health problems, substance use cessation, and depression and suicide screening. Investigators evaluated the program and assessed its feasibility, as well as facilitators and barriers to it...
  
  Date: May 23, 2018
• VA Successfully Implements Interferon-free Treatment for Hepatitis C Virus in Previously Undertreated Patient Populations
  This study examined the adoption of interferon-free treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) in VA to learn who received this therapy and whether the limitations of interferon-containing treatments have been overcome, including low rates of use among VA healthcare users who are African American or Hispanic, and among those with HCV-HIV co-infection. Findings showed that with the advent of interferon-...
  
  Date: March 7, 2018
• Evidence-based Psychotherapy Template Use Associated with Treatment Quality for Veterans with PTSD
  This study measured the prevalence of evidence-based psychotherapy (EBP) templated notes in VA, testing the hypothesis that template use would be associated with quality of care for Veterans with PTSD. Findings showed that facility-level EBP template use was associated with a greater proportion of PTSD-diagnosed patients treated in specialty clinics, greater facility-level rates of diagnostic asse...
  
  Date: September 30, 2017

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• Management Briefs eBrief-no132 - Interventions to Support Caregivers or Families of Patients with TBI, PTSD, or Polytrauma
  ...Management Briefs eBrief-no132 Interventions to Support Caregivers or Families of Patients with TBI, PTSD, or Polytrauma Management Brief no....
  
  
• Assessment and Treatment of Individuals with History of TBI and PTSD
  ...with PTSD? Is there evidence of harms? Are therapies for treatment of PTSD effective when PTSD is comorbid with mTBI? Is there evidence of harms?...
  
  
• Screening for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Primary Care: A Systematic Review
  ...event at some time during their lives and that approximately 8% will subsequently develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is one of...
  
  
• Interventions to Support Caregivers or Families of Patients with TBI, PTSD, or Polytrauma: A Systematic Review
  ...Interventions to Support Caregivers or Families of Patients with TBI, PTSD, or Polytrauma: A Systematic Review Interventions to Support Caregivers...
  
  
• Evidence Brief: Effectiveness of Stellate Ganglion Block for Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  ...Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Evidence Brief: Effectiveness of Stellate Ganglion Block for Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)...
  
  

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• Treatment of PTSD in Veterans 09/08/2017
• Implementation of Evidence-Based Psychotherapy for PTSD 07/19/2017

Other Resources

• Learn more about the studies being conducted within HSR&D's PTSD CREATE (Collaborative Research to Enhance and Advance Transformation and Excellence) initiative.
• Learn more about the VA's Quality Enhancement Research Initiative PTSD Veterans Choice Act Evaluation project.
• Visit the VA's Office of Research & Development healthcare topic overview section to learn more about milestones in VA's PTSD research, read research updates, and download research fact sheets.