Family Workshops for Bipolar Disorder

University of Miami

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Bipolar Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: integrative behavior couples therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00296283

20051107

Details and patient eligibility

About

This pilot study is looking at the effects of a brief psychoeducational workshop. These one day workshops are designed to increase family members knowledge about bipolar disorder and to help with processing emotions that go along with having a relative with bipolar disorder.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 64 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• self-identified adult relatives of people diagnosed with bipolar disorder between ages 18 and 64; up to two persons per family can participate in the multifamily group

Exclusion criteria

• relative with bipolar disorder will not be involved in the workshop

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)