Therapy Online Plus (TOP+) - Comparing Two Online Interventions for Dealing With Challenging Life Circumstances

Ulrike Willutzki

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Mental Disorders; Online-Intervention

Treatments: Behavioral: Res-Up!; Other: Wait-Control Group; Behavioral: REMOTION

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04352010

221/2019

Details and patient eligibility

About

Psychotherapy interventions can roughly be grouped into compensation-oriented strategies (compensating for and and modifying personal deficits of patients) versus capitalization-oriented strategies (building on patients' personal strengths). Improvement of emotion regulation (compensation-oriented) as well as the activation of resilience (capitalisation-oriented) have been identified as important transdiagnostic factors in the treatment of mental disorders. The study aims to compare compensation vs. capitalization strategies by using two online programs, centered either on emotion-regulation ("REMOTION") or on activating resilience ("Res-Up!"). Res-Up! and REMOTION are administered as stand-alone intervention or as add-on treatment to standard psychotherapy.

Participants will be randomly assigned to three study conditions (Res-Up!, REMOTION, waiting control group). Outcomes are assessed at baseline, after six weeks and after twelve weeks.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of a mental disorder according to DSM-5
• Recruited at the training centers of the German Association for Behavior Therapy (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verhaltenstherapie, DGVT) at Muenster, Bielefeld and Dortmund or at the Center of Mental Health and Psychotherapy, Witten/Herdecke University (all outpatients clinics

Exclusion criteria

• Insufficient German language skills
• Current severe episode of major depression
• Psychotic disorder

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 3 patient groups

Online-Intervention "Res-Up!"

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the Res-Up! group get access to Res-Up! while waiting for psychotherapy or in addition to psychotherapy. Participants will answer questionnaires after inclusion as well as six and twelve weeks later.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Res-Up!

Online-Intervention "REMOTION"

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the REMOTION group get access to REMOTION while waiting for psychotherapy or in addition to psychotherapy. Participants will answer questionnaires after inclusion as well as six and twelve weeks later.

Treatment:

Behavioral: REMOTION

Wait-control group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the wait-control group will not get access to the online-tools while waiting for psychotherapy or while in psychotherapy. Participants will answer questionnaires after inclusion, six weeks later and twelve weeks later.They get access to one of the online-tools after 12 weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Wait-Control Group