Augmenting Buried in Treasures Workshop (BIT) With In-home Decluttering Practice for Individuals With Hoarding Disorder

NCT ID: NCT02377986

Last Updated: 2020-02-11

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

5 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-02-28

Study Completion Date

2015-08-31

Brief Summary

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Patients participate in Buried in Treasures Workshop (BIT) that has been shown to improve symptoms of hoarding disorder. To target levels of clutter, the investigators are testing an intervention to add in-home decluttering practice to the BIT workshop.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Hoarding Disorder

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Experimental: BIT+In-home Decluttering

Patients who have not received the BIT workshop through our previous study (IRB 6681) will receive BIT+in-home decluttering practice.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

BIT+in-home decluterring

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

BIT Workshop + In-home decluttering practice

In-Home Decluttering

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

In-home decluttering practice

Interventions

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BIT+in-home decluterring

BIT Workshop + In-home decluttering practice

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

In-Home Decluttering

In-home decluttering practice

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* 18 years or older at consent
* Primary hoarding disorder, Saving Inventory Revised greater than or equal to 40.
* Clutter Image Rating Scale greater than or equal to 3 and less than or equal to 7.
* Low risk for eviction
* English speaking
* Will and able to understand and complete consent procedures

Exclusion Criteria

* Hoarding disorder not primary
* Severely depressed individuals; Hamilton Depressions Rating Scale greater than 30 or judged clinically to be at risk of suicide with Columbia Suicide Severity Scale
* Unable or unwilling to allow study staff into home for home assessment OR a Clutter Image Rating Score of less than 2 or greater than 7.
* At risk for eviction
* Animal Hoarding or squalor of any kind
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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New York State Psychiatric Institute

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Carolyn I. Rodriguez

Associate Chair for Inclusion and Diversity, Department of Psychiatry

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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H Blair Simpson, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Columbia-NYSPI-RFMH

References

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Linkovski O, Zwerling J, Cordell E, Sonnenfeld D, Willis H, La Lima CN, Baker C, Ghazzaoui R, Girson R, Sanchez C, Wright B, Alford M, Varias A, Filippou-Frye M, Shen H, Jo B, Shuer L, Frost RO, Rodriguez CI. Augmenting Buried in Treasures with in-home uncluttering practice: Pilot study in hoarding disorder. J Psychiatr Res. 2018 Dec;107:145-150. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2018.10.001. Epub 2018 Oct 5.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 30419524 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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7073

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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