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Online Group Psychological Intervention for People With Emotional Disorders

NCT05275322 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2022-03-11

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Summary

Participants will receive an online synchronous group therapy based on the Unified Protocol (UP) model for 11 subsequent weeks, with 90-minute meetings. After every session, they will be sent the chapter with the notions addressed in the session from the UP's patient manual (Barlow et al., 2011) and the scales to work with during the week.

Participants in the waiting list will complete the evaluation scales at the same time as people in the intervention group (before the intervention, in the middle, after the intervention, three months after and six months after). After this period they will receive the group therapy based on the UP.

The group admission criteria are: 1) being 18 years old or older; 2) submitting the informed consent; 3) agreeing to participate in all the scheduled sessions; 4) agreeing to have the sessions recorded (both audio and video) for oversight purposes; 5) submitting a primary diagnosis of an anxiety disorder (e.g., panic disorder; agoraphobia; social anxiety disorder; generalized anxiety disorder; unspecific anxiety disorder), unipolar depression (major depressive disorder; dysthymia), obsessive-compulsive disorder, or post-traumatic stress disorder, according to DSM criteria and disrupting individuals' daily life or causing significant discomfort.

The group exclusion criteria are: 1) comorbidity with psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, borderline personality disorder, or active severe suicidal ideation, and 2) currently receiving pharmacological treatment. All candidates who are not included in the group will be informed of this decision and will be given information on places to seek treatment. Evaluations will be carried out via video calls on the Google Meet platform, using the MINI (Ferrando et al., 2000) and SCID-II (Grilo, Anez \& McGlashan, 2003) diagnostic interviews.

Conditions

  • To Assess the Clinical Usefulness and Acceptability Level of the UP Online Group Format in Argentina as Well as Participants' Satisfaction

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Unified Protocol

The Unified Protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of EDs (hereinafter UP) is a transdiagnostic treatment based on emotional regulation published in 2011 by David H. Barlow et al. (Barlow et al., 2011). It consists of eight treatment modules, with five of them being central (mindfulness, cognitive flexibility, countering emotional behaviors, tolerating physical sensations, and emotional exposure).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Buenos Aires

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-03-31
Primary Completion
2022-06-30
Completion
2022-08-31

Countries

  • Argentina

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

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