Augmenting Buried in Treasures Workshop (BIT) With In-home Decluttering Practice for Individuals With Hoarding Disorder

New York State Psychiatric Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hoarding Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: BIT+in-home decluterring; Behavioral: In-Home Decluttering

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02377986

7073

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients participate in Buried in Treasures Workshop (BIT) that has been shown to improve symptoms of hoarding disorder. To target levels of clutter, the investigators are testing an intervention to add in-home decluttering practice to the BIT workshop.

Enrollment: 5 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years or older at consent
• Primary hoarding disorder, Saving Inventory Revised greater than or equal to 40.
• Clutter Image Rating Scale greater than or equal to 3 and less than or equal to 7.
• Low risk for eviction
• English speaking
• Will and able to understand and complete consent procedures

Exclusion criteria

• Hoarding disorder not primary
• Severely depressed individuals; Hamilton Depressions Rating Scale greater than 30 or judged clinically to be at risk of suicide with Columbia Suicide Severity Scale
• Unable or unwilling to allow study staff into home for home assessment OR a Clutter Image Rating Score of less than 2 or greater than 7.
• At risk for eviction
• Animal Hoarding or squalor of any kind

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

Experimental: BIT+In-home Decluttering

Experimental group

Description:

Patients who have not received the BIT workshop through our previous study (IRB 6681) will receive BIT+in-home decluttering practice.

Treatment:

Behavioral: BIT+in-home decluterring

Behavioral: In-Home Decluttering