Anxiety Treatment Inspired by Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Örebro County Council

Status: Completed

Conditions: Treatment Resistant Anxiety Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: DBT-inspired anxiety treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01571089

OLL-189011

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main interest in this study is to investigate if it is possible to use strategies from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to increase effectiveness of ordinary Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for patients with anxiety disorders. For the patients included in this study, previous exposure-based treatment should have been unsuccessful (drop-out, relapse or lack of positive results after treatment).

Enrollment: 5 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 64 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Currently diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. To be included, the level of anxiety in a critical situation should be high and of a more acute type, unlike the lower more generalized anxiety in for example generalized anxiety disorder.
• Previous exposure-based treatment should have been unsuccessful (drop-out, relapse or lack of positive results after treatment).

Exclusion criteria

• Severe depression.
• Psychotic disorder.
• A documented neuropsychiatric diagnosis.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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5 participants in 1 patient group

DBT-inspired exposure treatment

Experimental group

Description:

DBT-inspired exposure treatment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: DBT-inspired anxiety treatment