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Trial reportMilitary psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association2026

Compassion-focused therapy enhances outcomes of PTSD pharmacotherapy: A randomized controlled trial.

Leila Gonabadi-Nezhad, Fateme Rayyat Moeini, Samira Ghanei Rezae Moghaddam, Omid Golmohamadi, Mohsen Nazemi, Mahboubeh Khojastehmottaghi, Morteza Roostaee

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Trial report in Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Leila Gonabadi-NezhadCognitive Science and Behavioral Research Center, Aja University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Fateme Rayyat MoeiniCognitive Science and Behavioral Research Center, Aja University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.ORCID 0000-0002-6936-3307
Samira Ghanei Rezae MoghaddamDepartment of Clinical Psychology, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Omid GolmohamadiDepartment of Counseling, Hekmat Razavi Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran.
Mohsen NazemiDepartment of Psychology, Islamic Azad University Birjand Branch, Birjand, Iran.
Mahboubeh KhojastehmottaghiDepartment of Psychology, Islamic Azad University Bojnourd Branch, Bojnourd, Iran.
Morteza RoostaeeDepartment of Psychology, Islamic Azad University Birjand Branch, Birjand, Iran.

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Abstract

traumatic stress disorder is a debilitating condition often resistant to pharmacotherapy alone. Compassion-focused therapy may offer additional benefits in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. We evaluated the effectiveness of compassion-focused therapy as an adjunct to standard pharmacological treatment for reducing post-traumatic stress disorder symptom severity in male veterans. A randomized controlled trial was conducted involving 50 male veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosed according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. Participants were randomly allocated to either an intervention group receiving a weekly 8-session compassion-focused therapy program alongside pharmacotherapy or a control group receiving pharmacotherapy alone. Symptom severity, depression, and anxiety were measured at baseline and post-intervention. The compassion-focused therapy group exhibited significant reductions in all post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, including reexperiencing, avoidance, hyperarousal, emotional numbness, as well as depression and anxiety (all

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EmpathyStress Disorders, Post-TraumaticVeteransAdultAnxietyDepressionHumansMaleMiddle AgedTreatment Outcomeanxietyavoidance, hyper-arousal, depressionCompassion-focused therapypost-traumatic stress disorder

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PMCPMC13313180

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