Treatment of traumatic birth experience with postpartum early eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy: a randomized clinical trial.
Hendrix YMGA, van Pampus MG, Hofman A, Henrichs J, van der Horst HE, de Jongh A. · American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2025 · Randomized controlled trial
Original publication · Original publication
Recorded summary
Of 151 women randomised after a traumatic birth, 143 entered the reported intention-to-treat analysis. Two early postpartum EMDR sessions reduced self-reported and clinician-rated PTSD symptom severity compared with two telephone contacts; the reported raw symptom differences were 8.7 and 3.8 points respectively.
Recorded limitations
Clinician-diagnosed PTSD rates did not differ significantly. The abstract contains an inconsistent confidence-interval entry, so that interval is not reproduced here; follow-up was nine weeks postpartum.
Evidence and provenance
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Study design and assessment
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40769315/ · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2025.07.051
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40769315/ · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2025.07.051
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- Existing publication-specific assessments and bibliographic indexing; no blanket full-text appraisal.
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- 2026-10-27
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40769315/ · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2025.07.051
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- 2026-10-26
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- Primary publication abstract and bibliographic identity checked; comprehensive full-text risk-of-bias and Jadad assessment pending.
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- Success-focused discovery selection, with material limitations retained; not an exhaustive systematic review.
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- Treatment of traumatic birth experience with postpartum early eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy: a randomized clinical trial.
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- 2025
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- Hendrix YMGA, van Pampus MG, Hofman A, Henrichs J, van der Horst HE, de Jongh A.
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- Of 151 women randomised after a traumatic birth, 143 entered the reported intention-to-treat analysis. Two early postpartum EMDR sessions reduced self-reported and clinician-rated PTSD symptom severity compared with two telephone contacts; the reported raw symptom differences were 8.7 and 3.8 points respectively.
- limitation
- Clinician-diagnosed PTSD rates did not differ significantly. The abstract contains an inconsistent confidence-interval entry, so that interval is not reproduced here; follow-up was nine weeks postpartum.
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40769315/ · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2025.07.051
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40769315/ · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2025.07.051
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40769315/ · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2025.07.051
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- Of 151 women randomised after a traumatic birth, 143 entered the reported intention-to-treat analysis. Two early postpartum EMDR sessions reduced self-reported and clinician-rated PTSD symptom severity compared with two telephone contacts; the reported raw symptom differences were 8.7 and 3.8 points respectively.
- limitation
- Clinician-diagnosed PTSD rates did not differ significantly. The abstract contains an inconsistent confidence-interval entry, so that interval is not reproduced here; follow-up was nine weeks postpartum.
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40769315/ · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2025.07.051
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40769315/ · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2025.07.051
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- Of 151 women randomised after a traumatic birth, 143 entered the reported intention-to-treat analysis. Two early postpartum EMDR sessions reduced self-reported and clinician-rated PTSD symptom severity compared with two telephone contacts; the reported raw symptom differences were 8.7 and 3.8 points respectively.
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