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Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention Advance Access published online on March 24, 2006
Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, doi:10.1093/brief-treatment/mhj007
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Adapted Form of Individual Critical Incident Stress Debriefing for Victims of an Armed Robbery

André Marchand PhD 1 *, Stéphane Guay PhD 2, Richard Boyer PhD 2, Soledad Iucci PhD 1, Annick Martin PhD 1, and Marie-Hélène St-Hilaire PhD 1

1 From the Université du Québec à Montréal
2 From the Centre de Recherche Fernand-Seguin de l'Hôpital Louis-H. Lafontaine and Université de Montréal

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
André Marchand, E-mail: marchand.andre{at}uqam.ca


  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.

Keywords: armed robbery; psychological debriefing; PTSD.
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