CrisisCope: ICBT for Psychological Symptoms Related to Life Crises.

Linköping University (LiU)

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Depressive Symptoms; Anxiety Symptoms

Treatments: Behavioral: Internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05673382

CrisisCope

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim with this study is to investigate the effects of internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (ICBT) on psychological symptoms related to one or more life crises. The target group is adults (18 years or older) who have symptoms of depression, anxiety, stress, or other psychological distress related to one or more life crises. The ICBT consists of eight modules during eight weeks with weekly support by a therapist and the treatment group will be compared to a wait-list control condition. Participants will be recruited in Sweden with nationwide recruitment.

Full description

The study is a randomized controlled trial about the effects of ICBT aiming to target psychological symptoms related to one or more life crises. Primary outcome measures are depressive symptoms (measured with Beck Depression inventory-II) and anxiety symptoms (measured with Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7). Other outcome measures used will for example be about adaptability, stress symptoms, sleep problems, post traumatic stress symptoms and quality of life.

Because the psychological impact of a life crisis can be diverse, between different people and between different kinds of crises, a transdiagnostic individually tailored treatment will be used that has been tested in several previous trials. This treatment has been adopted to target psychological symptoms related to life crises.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Experience psychological symptoms related to one or more life crises.
• 18 years or older
• Adequate ability to speak, read and write Swedish
• Having access to the internet and a smartphone, computer or other device

Exclusion criteria

• Severe psychiatric or somatic issues that makes participation harder or impossible
• Ongoing addiction
• Acute suicidality
• Other ongoing psychological treatment
• Recent (within the past three months) changes in dose of psychotropic medication or planned change during the treatment weeks

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment group

Experimental group

Description:

Eight weeks of individually tailored ICBT, were participants receives in total 8 modules out of 20 possible depending on their current problems and described situation with weekly support by a therapist.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group is a wait-list control condition. Participants are instructed to wait. After the treatment group has finished their treatment and post-treatment measures has been collected, the control group receive the same treatment as the treatment group got.