Emotional Intelligence in Patients With Addictive Disorder

Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Substance Use Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: Emotional intelligence intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03521609

IIBSP-INT-2017-106

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims to evaluate the level of emotional intelligence in patients diagnosed with substance use disorder and to evaluate the benefits in emotional skills after a brief intervention based on emotional intelligence.

Full description

Patients will be recruited by consecutive non-probabilistic sampling in the Addictions Day Hospital of the Addictions Unit of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona. The level of emotional intelligence will be assessed through the following measurement instruments: MSCEIT for the objective emotional intelligence coefficient and the TMMS-24 for the perceived emotional intelligence. Patients will attend 9 sessions of brief group intervention based on emotional intelligence and pre-post intervention differences in participants' TMMS-24 scores will be analyzed

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Substance Use Disorder (DSM-5)
• 18 to 80 years old

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of severe psychopathological alteration (including severe intoxication)
• Inability to understand the Spanish language or difficulties writing or reading

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 1 patient group

Emotional Intelligence Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Patient's emotional abilities will be stimulated by means of a brief intervention in a group format (nine sessions). In these sessions we will use both projective and guided-fantasy techniques for the emotional diagnosis, as well as psychoeducational workshops of both emotional education and emotional intelligence development.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Emotional intelligence intervention