title: A Randomized Clinical Trial of Primary Care Brief Mindfulness Training for Veterans with PTSD.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Primary care (PC) patients typically do not receive adequate posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment. This study tested if a brief mindfulness training (BMT) offered in PC can decrease PTSD severity.
  
  
  METHODS
  VA PC patients with PTSD (N = 62) were recruited for a randomized clinical trial comparing PCBMT with PC treatment as usual. PCBMT is a 4-session program adapted from mindfulness-based stress reduction.
  
  
  RESULTS
  PTSD severity decreased in both conditions, although PCBMT completers reported significantly larger decreases in PTSD and depression from pre- to posttreatment and maintained gains at the 8-week follow-up compared with the control group. Exploratory analyses revealed that the describing, nonjudging, and acting with awareness facets of mindfulness may account for decreases in PTSD.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our data support preliminary efficacy of BMT for Veterans with PTSD. Whether PCBMT facilitates engagement into, or improves outcomes of, full-length empirically supported treatment for PTSD remains to be evaluated.
authors.affiliation: Upstate New York Veterans' Affairs Healthcare System.|Syracuse University.
authors.forename: Kyle
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Possemato
authors.affiliation: Upstate New York Veterans' Affairs Healthcare System.|Syracuse University.
authors.forename: Dessa
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bergen-Cico
authors.affiliation: Upstate New York Veterans' Affairs Healthcare System.|Crouse Hospital.
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Treatman
authors.affiliation: Upstate New York Veterans' Affairs Healthcare System.|Northern Illinois University.|University of Rochester Medical Center School of Medicine and Dentistry.
authors.forename: Christy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.affiliation: Upstate New York Veterans' Affairs Healthcare System.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wade
authors.affiliation: Upstate New York Veterans' Affairs Healthcare System.|Canandaigua Veterans' Affairs Medical Center.|University of Rochester Medical Center School of Medicine and Dentistry.
authors.forename: Wilfred
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Pigeon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D064866:Mindfulness / Q000379:methods*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014728:Veterans / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: PTSD; Veterans; brief intervention; mindfulness; primary care