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  • Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Evidence-Based Medicine

Background:

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) significantly impacts morbidity and functional capacity.
  • Exposure therapy, a trauma-focused intervention, is a primary treatment for PTSD.
  • Understanding the comparative efficacy of exposure therapy is crucial for clinical practice.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To meta-analyze the overall efficacy of exposure therapy for PTSD.
  • To assess the effectiveness of individual exposure-based treatments.
  • To identify demographic, clinical, and treatment factors moderating treatment outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic search of PsycINFO and Medline for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of exposure-based therapies for adult PTSD.
  • Inclusion of 65 articles from 934 screened abstracts, encompassing 4929 patients.
  • Meta-analysis of effect sizes comparing exposure therapy to control conditions and examining moderators.

Main Results:

  • Exposure therapy demonstrated large effects versus waitlist and treatment-as-usual controls.
  • Small and negligible effects were observed against non-trauma-focused and other trauma-focused treatments/medication, respectively.
  • Effect sizes were moderated by factors including session count, sample age, comorbidities, and trauma type.

Conclusions:

  • Findings strongly support the overall efficacy of exposure therapy for PTSD.
  • Multiple exposure-based therapies are similarly effective.
  • Treatment outcomes are influenced by patient characteristics and study design elements.