Cultivating Well-being in Severe Psychiatric Conditions (FelizMente2)

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Status: Completed

Conditions: Wellbeing

Treatments: Behavioral: FelizMente

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04768959

UniversityComplutenseMadrid

Details and patient eligibility

About

The multicomponet psychological intervention is called Feliz-Mente, with third generation therapy components that aims to improve wellbeing and self-enhancement. Without intervening directly on the symptoms, it is expected to increase positive experiences, the use of personal strengths and positive relationships, and aims to build a more meaningful self-narrative in persons with severe psychiatric conditions. Feliz-Mente is a group intervention of 12 sessions in which participants are expected to perform exercises during and between sessions to improve treatment adherence and daily practice. The design for the present study is a randomized controlled trial, which compares the post-intervention measures of the experimental group (group receiving the intervention) with the post-intervention measures of the control group (treatment as usual + waiting list).

Enrollment: 140 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 1. were aged 18-65 years
• 2. had a minimum of motivation and commitment to participate in group therapy

Exclusion criteria

• 1. limited cognitive resources or serious formal thinking disorder and/or
• 2. a concurrent diagnosis of substance dependence or a severe personality disorder that could interfere with benefiting from a psychotherapy group.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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140 participants in 2 patient groups

No Intervention: TAU + waiting list

No Intervention group

Description:

This control group is a waiting list group. Participants received treatment as usual (TAU). Once the RCT is finished, participants have the chance to participate in the intervention group.

Experimental: TAU + Feliz-Mente Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Feliz-Mente (third generation psychotherapy):The intervention is delivered in a group format with a total of 12 sessions and a maximum of 10 patients per group. The protocol consists of specific exercises: 1: welcome and identification of emotions, 2: identification and amplification of positive emotions, 3: regulation of negative emotions, 4: gratitude, 5: forgiveness, 6: self-compassion, 7: personal strengths, 8: loving-kindness and positive interpersonal relationships, 9: values, 10: purpose of life, 11: resilience, 12: keeping the change and farewell party.

Treatment:

Behavioral: FelizMente