Cultivating Well-being in Subclinical Paranoia

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Status: Completed

Conditions: Wellbeing

Treatments: Behavioral: Feliz-Mente (third generation psychotherapy)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04476771

ComplutenseMadrid

Details and patient eligibility

About

The 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 subclinical paranoia. Feliz-Mente is a group intervention of 12 sessions in which participants are expected to perform exercises during and between sessions by the use of a mobile application 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 and the daily use of a mobile application of the program) with the post-intervention measures of the control group (treatment as usual + waiting list).

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants between 18 and 35 years old
• At least two standard deviations above mean on the scales of distress, suspicion and /or interpersonal sensitivity in the SCL-90 questionnaire.

Exclusion criteria

• Participants with borderline personality disorder
• Participants with substance use disorders and /or
• Participants with severe cognitive impairment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

TAU + waiting list

No Intervention 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.

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: Feliz-Mente (third generation psychotherapy)