Restoring Emotional, Sexual, and Physical Empowerment Through CBT & Trauma-sensitive Care: A Chronic Pelvic Pain Intervention
CompletedNot applicableNCT02588885
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
This project will develop and preliminarily examine RESPECT, a trauma-sensitive psychological and physical therapy intervention to treat chronic pelvic pain, posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTS), and dysfunctional sexual behavior among women with sexual abuse histories. Patients will be recruited after being referred to pelvic floor physical therapy for treatment of chronic pelvic pain. Participants will complete seven sessions of individual cognitive behavioral psychotherapy. Physical therapy will be provided by clinicians who have been trained in trauma-sensitive treatment techniques. Treatment acceptability and outcomes will be assessed at baseline, mid intervention, post-intervention and follow-up via self-report measures. The RESPECT protocol is expected to be feasible to implement among sexual abuse survivors and to be well liked by patients. RESPECT is expected to reduce chronic pelvic pain, PTS, dysfunctional sexual behavior, treatment avoidance.
Study details
- Official title
- Restoring Emotional, Sexual, and Physical Empowerment Through CBT & Trauma-sensitive Care: A Chronic Pelvic Pain Intervention
- Conditions
- Pelvic Pain
- Stress Disorders, Traumatic
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Trauma-sensitive Care
- Sponsor
- Rush University Medical Center
- Start date
- 2015-10
- Primary completion
- 2019-11
- Sex
- Female
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Fluent in English * History of sexual abuse * Premenopausal * Chronic pelvic pain defined as pelvic pain with a duration of six months of at least a moderate severity Exclusion Criteria: * Not menstruating for reasons other than birth control * Not currently receiving any current trauma-focused psychological treatment (i.e., prolonged exposure therapy, cognitive processing therapy, eye movement desensitization reprocessing) * No current psychotic symptoms or current use of anti-psychotic medications * No current suicidal ideation in the past month * Not currently pregnant
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02588885