The Efficacy of Group-based Unified Protocol (UP) Programme for Improving Sleep and Mental Health

The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Quality of Life; Depression, Anxiety; Insomnia

Treatments: Behavioral: Unified Protocol for mood disorders

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05394753

EA210411

Details and patient eligibility

About

Common mental disorders can be disabling and lead to a large burden of disease. Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders was developed to address emotional disorders with evidence-based emotional-focused cognitive-behavioural techniques and is efficacious in reducing anxiety symptoms and depressive symptoms in adults. Previous research has demonstrated comparable effect of UP on reducing anxiety symptoms compared with the single-disorder protocol (SDP) for anxiety. Group-based UP was also implemented and tested. Given the fact that working populations are at a high risk of poor mental health, especially in light of the COVID pandemic with new unprecedented work situations and increased uncertainties, the present study aims to investigate the efficacy of Unified protocol on sleep and mental health in high-risk population.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Working in local schools or education institutions
• aged 18 or above
• no severe or unstable mental health conditions at recruitment
• no extensive prior training/practice with mindfulness

Exclusion criteria

• psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder, severe alcohol disorder and substance abuse, acute and high suicidal risk
• currently receiving taking other psychosocial interventions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Unified Protocol

Experimental group

Description:

8-session group-based intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Unified Protocol for mood disorders

Wait-list control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the wait-list control group will receive the same program, two months after their counterparts in the experimental group completed the intervention.