The clinical trial of the comparison of Transdiagnostic Therapy with cognitive- behavior therapy on emotion regulation strategies in patients with emotional disorders
An important concept for understanding emotional disorders is emotion regulation. The present study focuses on Effectiveness of Transdiagnostic Therapy on emotion regulation strategies of patients with emotional disorders in comparison with cognitive-behavior therapy. This study was a pretest/post test randomized control trial. Inclusion criteria was age 18 or older; be fluent in Persian; be able to attend all treatment sessions and assessments and provide informed consent and exclusion criteria was evidence of dementia or other neuro-cognitive conditions that impair ability; have clinical conditions that require immediate treatment; suicidality; substance use disorders. A diagnostically heterogeneous clinical sample of 23 patients with a principal depression and anxiety disorders that randomly assigned in two groups (transdiagnostic and CBT), and participated in eight sessions. Participants were recruited from Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry Clinics of Taleghani Hospital, Tehran, Iran. Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) and Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS) were completed pre and post intervention by participants. The results were analyzed by dependent sample t test and analyses of covariance (ANCOVA).
Data analysis showed that transdiagnostic therapy resulted in significant improvement of cognitive emotion regulation strategies.
Transdiagnostic treatment was confirmed in decreasing negative affects and negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies and improving positive affect and positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies in patients with depression and anxiety disorders, and was more effective than cognitive-behavior therapy for increaseed positive affects.
General information
Acronym
IRCT registration information
IRCT registration number:IRCT2014010516085N1
Registration date:2014-03-13, 1392/12/22
Registration timing:retrospective
Last update:
Update count:0
Registration date
2014-03-13, 1392/12/22
Registrant information
Name
mozhgan lotfi
Name of organization / entity
shahid beheshti university of medical sciences
Country
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Phone
+98 213333333
Email address
m.lotfi@sbmu.ac.ir
Recruitment status
Recruitment complete
Funding source
Deputy of Research of Medicine School of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Expected recruitment start date
2012-07-09, 1391/04/19
Expected recruitment end date
2013-01-08, 1391/10/19
Actual recruitment start date
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Actual recruitment end date
empty
Trial completion date
empty
Scientific title
The clinical trial of the comparison of Transdiagnostic Therapy with cognitive- behavior therapy on emotion regulation strategies in patients with emotional disorders
Public title
The clinical trial of the comparison of Transdiagnostic Therapy with cognitive- behavior therapy on patients with depression and anxiety disorders
Purpose
Treatment
Inclusion/Exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: age 18 or older; be fluent in Persian; be able to attend all treatment sessions and assessments; provide informed consent
Exclusion criteria: have evidence of dementia or other neuro-cognitive conditions that impair ability; have clinical conditions that require immediate treatment; suicidality; substance use disorders
Age
From 22 years old to 50 years old
Gender
Both
Phase
N/A
Groups that have been masked
No information
Sample size
Target sample size:
23
Randomization (investigator's opinion)
Randomized
Randomization description
Blinding (investigator's opinion)
Not blinded
Blinding description
Placebo
Not used
Assignment
Parallel
Other design features
Secondary Ids
empty
Ethics committees
1
Ethics committee
Name of ethics committee
Deputy of Research of Medicine School of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Street address
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Koodakayar Avenue. Evin. Tehran, Iran
Treatment in the transdiagnostic condition consisted of 8 weekly 45 minute sessions following unified protocol. The unified protocol consists of five core treatment modules: (a) increasing present-focused emotion awareness (b) increasing cognitive flexibility (c) identifying and preventing emotion sensations and (e) emotion-focused exposure (Allen, McHugh, & Barlow, 2008; Barlow, Ellard, et al., 2011).
The first session was focused on motivation enhancement for treatment engagement and change. The second session emotional understanding was focused, and the third session cognitive reappraisals were trained. The focus of fourth and fifth sessions was emotional avoidance and emotion-focused behaviors. And the content of sixth session was awareness and tolerance of physical sensations. The final two sessions was focused on introceptive and situational emotion exposures.
Category
Behavior
2
Description
In the CBT condition, we conducted 8 weekly 45 minute session following cognitive-behavioral diagnosis- specific manuals.
Category
Behavior
Recruitment centers
1
Recruitment center
Name of recruitment center
Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry Clinics of Taleghani Hospital
Full name of responsible person
Mrs.Mohammadi
Street address
Clinical Psychology Clinic, Taleghani Hospital, Evin Squ, Tehran, Iran
City
tehran
Sponsors / Funding sources
1
Sponsor
Name of organization / entity
Deputy of Research of Medicine School of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Full name of responsible person
Mrs khateri
Street address
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
City
tehran
Grant name
Grant code / Reference number
Is the source of funding the same sponsor organization/entity?
Yes
Title of funding source
Deputy of Research of Medicine School of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Proportion provided by this source
100
Public or private sector
empty
Domestic or foreign origin
empty
Category of foreign source of funding
empty
Country of origin
Type of organization providing the funding
empty
Person responsible for general inquiries
Contact
Name of organization / entity
Department of Clinical Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Full name of responsible person
Mozhgan Lotfi
Position
Clinical Psychologist
Other areas of specialty/work
Street address
Tehran
City
Tehran
Postal code
Phone
+98 21 2243 9951
Fax
Email
lotfei2007@gmail.com
Web page address
Person responsible for scientific inquiries
Contact
Name of organization / entity
Department of Clinical Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Full name of responsible person
Mozhgan Lotfi
Position
Ph.D
Other areas of specialty/work
Street address
Tehran
City
Tehran
Postal code
Phone
+98 21 2243 9951
Fax
Email
lotfei2007@gmail.com
Web page address
Person responsible for updating data
Contact
Name of organization / entity
Department of Clinical Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Full name of responsible person
Mozhgan Lotfi
Position
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
Other areas of specialty/work
Street address
Department of Clinical Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Koodakayar Avenue. Evin. Tehran, Iran
City
Tehran
Postal code
Phone
+98 21 4481 7947
Fax
Email
Web page address
Sharing plan
Deidentified Individual Participant Data Set (IPD)