Group Treatment for Hoarding Disorder

Florida State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hoarding Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Group CBT with IPT

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04270825

2018.26389

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study assesses the effectiveness of a novel group treatment for hoarding disorder.

Full description

The primary aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of a novel group treatment for hoarding disorder. Participants will be randomized to receive either treatment as usual (cognitive behavioral therapy: CBT) or treatment as usual augmented by interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT). It is hypothesized that group CBT with IPT will result in greater decreases in hoarding symptoms, as compared to standard group CBT. It is further hypothesized that CBT with IPT will result in greater reductions in object attachment and maladaptive beliefs about relationships with others, as well as greater increases in interpersonal attachment.

Enrollment: 8 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

-Clinical diagnosis of HD

Exclusion criteria

• Evidence of a severe mental illness or substance use disorder that would impede the completion of the treatment
• Current receipt of CBT for HD
• Initiation of new psychotropic medications for symptoms of HD

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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8 participants in 1 patient group

CBT with IPT

Experimental group

Description:

Group CBT with IPT will consist of 20 weekly two-hour sessions and has been developed for the proposed study based on the protocols for group CBT for HD and group IPT. Treatment includes strategies from CBT, including cognitive restructuring, behavioral exposures, and organizational strategies, as well as strategies from IPT, including role-play, interpersonal skills building, communication analysis, and decision analysis.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Group CBT with IPT