Therapist-supported online cognitive therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in young people: protocol for an early-stage, parallel-group, randomised controlled study (OPTYC trial)

• William Yule,
• Gordon Forbes,
• Monica Gupta,
• David Clark,
• Kimberley Goldsmith,
• Tim Dalgleish,
• Richard Meiser-Stedman,
• Sarah Miles,
• Anke Ehlers,
• Patrick Smith,
• Helena Griffiths,
• Dorothy King,
• Dominic Plant

Affiliations

William Yule

King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London SE5 8AF, UK

Gordon Forbes

3 Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

Monica Gupta

Department of General Medicine, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India

David Clark

Cardiovascular Division, Northwest Heart Centre, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK

Kimberley Goldsmith

Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, King`s College London, London, UK

Tim Dalgleish

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK

Richard Meiser-Stedman

Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Therapies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

Sarah Miles

Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK

Anke Ehlers

1 Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Patrick Smith

Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK

Helena Griffiths

Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK

Dorothy King

Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK

Dominic Plant

Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK