Program Profile: PTSD Coach Smartphone App for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms

This is a smartphone app intervention designed to help manage and reduce PTSD symptoms.

Evidence Rating: Promising | One study

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This is a smartphone app intervention designed to help manage and reduce posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. The program is rated Promising. Over time, symptoms of PTSD, such as depression, and psychosocial functioning, reduced more for the treatment group, compared with the control group. However, there was no statistically significant difference in users’ confidence in managing their PTSD symptoms and reaching out for support.

A Promising rating implies that implementing the program may result in the intended outcome(s).

This program's rating is based on evidence that includes at least one high-quality randomized controlled trial.

Date Created: July 17, 2024
Program Snapshot

Age: 18+

Gender: Male, Female

Race/Ethnicity: White, Black, Hispanic, American Indians/Alaska Native

Setting (Delivery): Other Community Setting, Home

Program Type: Cognitive Behavioral Treatment, Victim Programs

Targeted Population: Victims of Crime

Current Program Status: Active