Emotion Regulation Group Skills Training for Adolescents and Parents

NCT03900533 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 2015/264-31
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 119
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

To evaluate if emotion regulation group therapy skills training for adolescents and parents is an efficacious treatment when delivered as adjunctive to treatment as usual compared to a control group consisting of treatment as usual.

Conditions

Behavioral Symptoms; Emotional Instability

Keywords

child psychiatry; emotion regulation skills training

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Difficulties with Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)

  Difficulties with Emotion Regulation Scale measures difficulties with emotion regulation. It contains a total of 36 items that are rated on a Likert scale between 1-5. Total score ranges between 36-180 with higher scores indicating more difficulties with emotion regulation. The scale has 6 subscales: nonacceptance (ranging from 6-30); goals (ranging from 5-25); impulse (ranging from 6-30); awareness (ranging from 6-30); strategies (ranging from 8-40) and clarity (ranging from 5-25).

  Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months

Secondary Outcomes (6)

• Beck's Anxiety Inventory (BAI)

  Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months

• Montgomery Åsberg Depression Rating Scale, self-report version (MADRS-S).

  Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months

• Global Assessment Scale for Children (C-GAS)

  Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months

• Brunnsviken Brief Quality of Life (BBQ)

  Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months

• Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20)

  Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months

Study Arms (2)

Adjunctive group emotion regulation skills training

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will receive a 7 week group emotion regulation skills training together with parents adjacent to treatment as usual provided by the child- and adolescent psychiatric clinic

Behavioral: Adjunctive group emotion regulation skills training

Treatment as usual (TAU)

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Participants will receive treatment as usual for 7 weeks as provided by the child- and adolescent psychiatric clinic

Behavioral: Treatment as usual

Interventions

Adjunctive group emotion regulation skills training BEHAVIORAL

The adjunctive emotion regulation skills training is delivered in a group format once a week during 7 weeks to adolescents and parents jointly together with treatment as usual

Adjunctive group emotion regulation skills training

Treatment as usual BEHAVIORAL

Treatment as usual at the child- and adolescent psychiatric clinic is delivered during 7 weeks

Treatment as usual (TAU)

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 14 Years - 17 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Being enrolled as a patient at the child- and adolescent psychiatric clinic in Linköping
• Having an adult participant joining the skills training
• Being between the ages of 14-17 years
• Having sufficient knowledge of the Swedish language

You may not qualify if:

• Clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia
• Clinical diagnosis of psychosis
• Clinical diagnosis of severe anorexia nervosa
• Clinical diagnosis of severe autism spectrum disorder
• Having a cognitive disability
• Having an ongoing drug or alcohol abuse
• Clinical diagnosis of bipolar disorder
• Insufficient knowledge of the Swedish language

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Region Östergötland: lead

Study Sites (1)

Region Östergötland BUP-kliniken

Linköping, 581 85, Sweden

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Behavioral Symptoms

Interventions

Therapeutics

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Maria A Zetterqvist, PhD

  Region Ostergotland/Linköping universitet

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 29, 2019
• First Posted: April 3, 2019
• Study Start: April 2, 2019
• Primary Completion: September 4, 2023
• Study Completion: September 4, 2023
• Last Updated: October 29, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-10

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

SE (1)