Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) for Anxiety Diagnoses in a Primary Care Setting

NCT ID: NCT05863637

Last Updated: 2023-05-31

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 30 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-09-30
• Study Completion Date: 2025-12-31

Brief Summary

Living with anxiety often means great suffering for the person affected. The trend points to a continued increase in anxiety problems in the population, especially in the 18-44 age group. Inadequate treatment of this condition can lead to long-term sick leave, isolation, exclusion and, in the worst case, to death. The treatment methods that are available in primary care today help some but far from all. Therefore, the investigators want to scientifically evaluate a shorter version of a proven emotion-focused psychotherapy in order to increase the treatment range for this patient group. The aim of this project is to, in a primary care setting, test and evaluate an intensive, emotion-focused short-term therapy, ISTDP (Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy) for patients with an anxiety diagnosis. The method is well-proven on patients with more severe mental conditions (personality disorders) with good results, but the treatment has only been tested to a limited extent on patients with anxiety symptoms. The investigators want to investigate the effectiveness of treating various anxiety states for primary care patients. The treatment is expected to provide an addition to today's methods, which overall will provide better treatment results for this, increasing in number, group of patients who often seek primary care.

Conditions

Psychotherapy; Anxiety Disorders; Psychiatric &or Mood Disorder

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Treated

Participants are their own controls when they are on the waiting list before treatment, and they will later be treated with the ISTDP.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

Intervention Type: OTHER

A dynamic and intensive psychotherapy with eight therapeutic sessions

Interventions

Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

A dynamic and intensive psychotherapy with eight therapeutic sessions

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Primary Care patients with primary anxiety diagnoses at a Health Care clinic in Sweden. Sufficient language competence in Swedish is required of the participants to understand, read, speak and write.

Exclusion Criteria

• Major reading-writing and learning difficulties, severe psychiatric problems such as psychosis, eating disorder, current major depression, recurrent depression, severe trauma, acute crisis reaction, exhaustion, acute risk of suicide (assessed according to the suicide scale), addiction.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 70 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Kalmar County Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Linnaeus University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Suzanne Petersson

PhD

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Cecilia Fagerström, Professor

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Director of the Research Board in Region Kalmar

Locations

Region Kalmar

Kalmar, , Sweden

Countries

Sweden

Central Contacts

Annika Lundmark, MSc

Role: CONTACT

annika.lundmark@regionkalmar.se

+46480445274

Facility Contacts

Suzanne IM Petersson, PhD

Role: primary

suzanne.petersson@regionkalmar.se

+46738019547

Hanna Franzén, MSc

Role: backup

hanna.franzen1@regionkalmar.se

+46480445274

Other Identifiers

LinnaeusUSP

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id