A Clinical Trial of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Depression, Stigmatization, Excessive Worries, and Emotional Management Among Women Facing Partner Violence

Government College University Faisalabad

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Treatments: Behavioral: cognitive behavioral therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06208111

GovernmentGUF

Details and patient eligibility

About

1. Aim to investigate the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Depression, Stigmatization, Excessive Worries, and Emotional Management among Women Facing Partner Violence
2. To explore the effectiveness of CBT in managing depressive symptoms, stigma, worries, and emotional disturbance among women facing partner violence.

Full description

In this Randomized control trial, N=180 participants would be enrolled for eligibility assessment from different shelter homes in the cities of Punjab after the eligibility assessment and screening 108 participants would be allocated to experimental and waitlist treatment conditions. Participants will be allocated through matchable group characteristics. Participant's age range would be between 18 to 45 years. Each of the group will be comprised of the same number of participants. Both groups will be pre-tested and results will be recorded. A cognitive behavior therapy-based treatment plan will be formulated to address Depression, Stigmatization, Excessive Worries, and Emotional Management among Women Facing Partner Violence. 8-10 CBT-based therapeutic sessions with 60 minutes will be conducted with the participant in a one-on-one setting.

Enrollment: 180 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women living in the institutions for at least 2 weeks because of partner violence
• Second eligibility criteria would be women with a minimum of 1 year of marital relationship will be included.
• The age range would be 18 -48 years.
• Women whose scores are above average on the partner violence scale would be included in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Women greater than 48 years and less than 18 years will be excluded.
• Women with medical and psychiatric comorbidities will be excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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180 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment group

Experimental group

Description:

Experimental Group: participants in the experimental group would receive 8-10 Cognitive Behaviour Therapy-based therapeutic sessions.

Treatment:

Behavioral: cognitive behavioral therapy

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the control group did not receive the said Cognative Behaviour Therapy intervention