NCT01445444

Habit Reversal Training for Children and Adolescents With Trichotillomania

Habit Reversal Training for Children and Adolescents With Trichotillomania: A Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of South Florida · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the current study is: 1. To evaluate the effectiveness of a habit reversal training (HRT) approach for children ages 7 to 17 years of age inclusive with a diagnosis of trichotillomania. 2. To explore factors that may relate to symptom severity, treatment outcome, and psychosocial impairment (e.g., specific symptom presence, co-morbidity, emotional regulation).

Detailed description

The purpose of this research study is to further investigate how well Habit Reversal Training (HRT) works to reduce hair-pulling symptoms in children and adolescents with trichotillomania (TTM). All children will have the option to receive 8 weekly HRT sessions. Half of all children will be chosen at random to receive these sessions immediately following the pre-assessment and the remaining half will receive them after eight weeks (TAU condition). These sessions will focus developing skills for managing TTM and to decrease hair pulling. Such skills may include teaching your child to replace hair-pulling with another behavior. In the TAU condition, participants will seek the treatment in the community, with the option of receiving HRT treatment sessions at the end of the study. Participants in both groups will undergo four assessments in total (1) Pre-Assessment; (2) Post-treatment Assessment; (3) One-month Follow-up; (4)Three-month Follow-up. These assessments will involve several interviews that ask about different psychological symptoms that your child experiences such as sadness, anxiety, and TTM.

Conditions

• Trichotillomania

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Habit Reversal Training	* 8 weekly therapy sessions lasting 50 minutes based on the protocol outlined by Woods (2001). * The overall focus of treatment is to provide patients with tools to help them manage and reduce hair-pulling. * components: * Session 1. (a) to develop an understanding of the subject's hair-pulling through an initial interview; and (b) to establish a protocol for ongoing assessment. * Session 2. implement habit reversal, including awareness training, competing response training, and social support. * Sessions 3-8. For subjects with a single hair-pulling site, Session 3 will review and practice HRT procedures and name solutions to problems that may have arisen. For those with multiple hair-pulling sites, treatment will be reviewed for the first site in the hierarchy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-09-01
• Primary completion: 2015-12-01
• Completion: 2016-03-01
• First posted: 2011-10-03
• Last updated: 2016-03-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States