Archives of general psychiatry
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Arch. Gen. Psychiatry · Feb 2012
Randomized Controlled TrialPrevention of posttraumatic stress disorder by early treatment: results from the Jerusalem Trauma Outreach And Prevention study.
Preventing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a pressing public health need. ⋯ Prolonged exposure, CT, and delayed PE effectively prevent chronic PTSD in recent survivors. The lack of improvement from treatment with escitalopram requires further evaluation. Trauma-focused clinical interventions have no added benefit to survivors with subthreshold PTSD symptoms. Trial Registration clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT00146900.