Short- and Long-term Group Psychotherapy

NCT00521417 | Unknown Phase 2 DMC

• 1 other identifier: aker2004-77
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 140
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

A primary goal of this study is to investigate the significance of treatment duration, by comparing change after group psychotherapy of varying lengths. A secondary goal is to investigate the predictive value of selected patient variables on outcome: personality pathology, quality of object relations, presence of personality disorder, degree of initial disturbance, and education. One hundred and twenty patients from 5-6 different study sites (consisting of one coordinator and 3 therapists) will be included. Exclusion criteria are psychosis, substance abuse, and organically based symptoms. Patients are interviewed before treatment and one year after termination, and self-rated outcome measures are filled in at 3-month intervals during treatment and at termination. After an initial evaluation, patients are randomized to one of two manualized psychodynamic group psychotherapies with different treatment lengths (20 and 80 sessions). Each therapist will conduct both a short- and a long-term group, and sessions are taped in order to check treatment integrity.

Conditions

Mood Disorders; Anxiety Disorders; Personality Disorders

Keywords

RCT

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• scl-90-R, IIP-C, GAF

  before and after therapy,follow-up and every 3 months during therapy

Study Arms (2)

short-term dynamic therapy

EXPERIMENTAL

Group therapy 20 sessions, give insight

Behavioral: short-term dynamic therapy

long-term dynamic therapy

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Group therapy 80 sessions, give insight

Behavioral: long-term dynamic therapy

Interventions

short-term dynamic therapy BEHAVIORAL

short-term dynamic therapy

long-term dynamic therapy BEHAVIORAL

long-term dynamic therapy

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 70 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Patients who consult or are referred to oupatient psychiatric centers or private pratice, and who are considered suitable for ambulant psychodynamic group psychotherapy.

You may not qualify if:

• Active psychotic disorder, drug or alcohol dependence as main diagnosis, organically based symptoms, e.g. brain damage, autism and adult ADHD.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Oslo: lead
• Brigham Young University: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Distriktpsykiatrisk senter Helse sunnmøre

Ålesund, Ålesund, 6014, Norway

Location

Related Publications (2)

• Storebo OJ, Stoffers-Winterling JM, Vollm BA, Kongerslev MT, Mattivi JT, Jorgensen MS, Faltinsen E, Todorovac A, Sales CP, Callesen HE, Lieb K, Simonsen E. Psychological therapies for people with borderline personality disorder. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2020 May 4;5(5):CD012955. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012955.pub2.

  PMID: 32368793 DERIVED

• Lorentzen S, Ruud T, Fjeldstad A, Hoglend P. Comparison of short- and long-term dynamic group psychotherapy: randomised clinical trial. Br J Psychiatry. 2013 Sep;203(3):280-7. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.112.113688. Epub 2013 Sep 12.

  PMID: 24029539 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Mood Disorders; Anxiety Disorders; Personality Disorders

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• Steinar Lorentzen, Dr. med.

  Associate Professor University of Oslo

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 2
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: professor emeritus

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 24, 2007
• First Posted: August 27, 2007
• Study Start: August 1, 2005
• Primary Completion: August 1, 2018
• Study Completion: August 1, 2020
• Last Updated: May 2, 2016

Record last verified: 2016-04

Locations

NO (1)