Brief Shame Intervention Study

NCT ID: NCT03463356

Last Updated: 2019-02-07

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 14 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2018-02-15
• Study Completion Date: 2018-06-30

Brief Summary

The current project will develop and test a brief 2-session shame intervention in individuals diagnosed with social anxiety disorder (SAD). Using a non-concurrent multiple baseline design, the investigators will determine whether the brief shame intervention leads to reductions in trait self-reported shame and state shame in response to an in vivo stressor task. The investigators will also evaluate the effect of changes in shame on trait SAD symptoms.

Conditions

Shame; Social Anxiety Disorder

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Shame Intervention

Participants will complete a two shame intervention sessions approximately one week apart.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Shame Intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

In the Shame Intervention, participants will meet with a therapist and learn to: 1) Recognize the experience of shame, 2) Understand the connection between shame and social anxiety, 3) Identify shame triggers and vulnerabilities, 4) Identify the thoughts and behaviors that keep participants stuck in shame, and 5) Learn how to use new, healthier thoughts and behaviors that will help participants move through and decrease shame.

Interventions

Shame Intervention

In the Shame Intervention, participants will meet with a therapist and learn to: 1) Recognize the experience of shame, 2) Understand the connection between shame and social anxiety, 3) Identify shame triggers and vulnerabilities, 4) Identify the thoughts and behaviors that keep participants stuck in shame, and 5) Learn how to use new, healthier thoughts and behaviors that will help participants move through and decrease shame.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

-≥ 18 years old

• fluent in English, in terms of verbal and written competence
• meet diagnostic criteria for social anxiety disorder (as assessed by the Diagnostic Interview for Anxiety, Mood, and OCD and Related Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Tolin et al., 2016)
• have elevated levels of shame (i.e., score 1 SD above the Test of Self-Conscious Affect-3 [TOSCA-3] means reported by an unselected undergraduate sample [M = 33.62, SD = 8.64])
• endorse a desire to decrease their levels of shame and/or social anxiety.

Exclusion Criteria

• currently receiving cognitive-behavioral therapy specifically for social anxiety or shame
• have begun taking or had a change in dosage of psychotropic medication in the past six weeks
• do not achieve baseline stability

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 100 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Miami University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Elise Clerkin

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Marie Parsons, M.A.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Miami University

Locations

Anxiety Cognition and Emotion Laboratory

Oxford, Ohio, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

01474r

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id