IBSR Intervention for Adults Who Stutter

NCT ID: NCT04580966

Last Updated: 2020-10-09

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 56 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2017-11-05
• Study Completion Date: 2018-08-23

Brief Summary

Stuttering is a speech disorder that can cause disturbances in the timing and flow of speech. It is often accompanied not only by verbal difficulties but also by negative impact on several psycho-social aspects in the life of the people who stutter.

Recently, clinical evidences have shown the effectiveness of Inquiry Based Stress Reduction (IBSR) technique to improve psychosocial symptoms and enhance well-being in clinical and non-clinical samples. IBSR, the clinical application of Byron Katie's "The Work", enables individuals to mindfully spot and investigate in a systematic and comprehensive manner thoughts that lead to stress and suffering by a series of questions and turnarounds. IBSR was found to have significantly positive influence on the quality of life, mental well-being and stress management in a variety of populations which suffer from elevated levels of stress, suffering, tension and anxiety, and to enhance resilience of non-clinical general population.

In our research we hypothesized that:

1. Adults who stutter will have high levels of anxiety, and low levels of psychological flexibility and satisfaction with life.

2. IBSR intervention will improve experience of stuttering in adults who stutter.

3. IBSR will decrease anxiety levels and enhance psychological flexibility and satisfaction with life.

Conditions

Stuttering

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Inquiry Based Stress Reduction (IBSR) workshop

Participants of this group received an IBSR intervention workshop.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Inquiry Based Stress Reduction (IBSR) workshop

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The IBSR intervention workshop included weekly group meetings (3.5 hours/meeting) for 12 weeks. During the workshop, participants were encouraged to identify and inquire their stressful thoughts. Using self-inquiry practices participants were taught to increase awareness of their thoughts and feelings, to observe their emotional and physical responses during situations perceived by them as stressful, and allow their mind to return to its true, peaceful, creative nature. Through the process of self-inquiry, participants took an active role in investigating their stressful thoughts, and by this regulated their stress and managed symptoms and emotions, thus enabled them to cope better with the psycho-social consequences of the stuttering.

Control group

Participants of this group did not take a part in the workshop.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Inquiry Based Stress Reduction (IBSR) workshop

The IBSR intervention workshop included weekly group meetings (3.5 hours/meeting) for 12 weeks. During the workshop, participants were encouraged to identify and inquire their stressful thoughts. Using self-inquiry practices participants were taught to increase awareness of their thoughts and feelings, to observe their emotional and physical responses during situations perceived by them as stressful, and allow their mind to return to its true, peaceful, creative nature. Through the process of self-inquiry, participants took an active role in investigating their stressful thoughts, and by this regulated their stress and managed symptoms and emotions, thus enabled them to cope better with the psycho-social consequences of the stuttering.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

"The Work" meditation (Byron Katie)

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Diagnosis of either developmental or acquired stuttering.
• Age of 18 years or above.
• Capability to understand and fill out the study outcome instruments and informed consent form.

Exclusion Criteria

• Diagnosis of severe mental illness.
• Inability to understand or read Hebrew.
• Subjects who declare they can not take a part in the trial throughout its whole duration.

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

Sponsors

Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv, , Israel

Countries

Israel

Other Identifiers

IBSR-Stuttering

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id