REMOTION: a Trial to Investigate the Feasibility and Potential Effectiveness of a Blended, Transdiagnostic Intervention for Symptom Reduction and Improvement of Emotion Regulation in an Outpatient Psychotherapeutic Setting

University of Bern

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: REMOTION; Behavioral: TAU

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04262726

2019-01929

Details and patient eligibility

About

Emotion regulation has been identified as an important transdiagnostic factor in the treatment of mental health disorders. This study aims to examine, for the first time, REMOTION, a novel blended therapy intervention aimed at reducing symptom severity and improving emotion regulation of patients in an outpatient psychotherapy setting. REMOTION is an internet based intervention that is administered as an add-on to psychotherapy. This study aims to investigate feasibility and also potential effectiveness of REMOTION in an outpatient setting. Participants will be randomly assigned to the study conditions. Outcomes are assessed at baseline, after six weeks and after twelve weeks.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years or older
• In psychotherapeutic treatment at the outpatient clinic of the Department of Clinical Psychology at the University of Bern
• Mental disorder present
• Internet access available
• Written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Current participation in another intervention, outside of the treatment at the outpatient clinic, that is geared specifically at emotion regulation
• Current or history of psychotic disorders or bipolar disorder
• Acute suicidality
• Insufficient mastery of German language

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

REMOTION + TAU

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the REMOTION group receive REMOTION in addition to psychotherapy at the outpatient clinic of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Bern.

Treatment:

Behavioral: TAU

Behavioral: REMOTION

TAU

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants in TAU receive psychotherapy at the outpatient clinic of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Bern.

Treatment:

Behavioral: TAU