Citation

Marchand A, Guay S, Boyer R, Iucci S, Martin A, St-Hilaire MH. Brief Treat. Crisis Interv. 2006; 6(2): 122-129.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-ville, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3P8. (marchand.andre@uqam.ca)

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Oxford University Press)

DOI

10.1093/brief-treatment/mhj007

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Victims of an armed robbery are at great risk of psychological distress. This research is a prospective randomized controlled clinical trial of an adapted form of Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD-A) with victims of an armed robbery. The specific goals are to examine whether the CISD-A is superior to the control group in both preventing the development of a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and attenuating the frequency and severity of posttraumatic stress symptoms. Following pretest, 75 participants were randomly assigned to individual debriefing or to a control group. Results revealed no differences between the CISD-A and the control group in preventing PTSD or attenuating posttraumatic symptoms 1 and 3 months later.