NCT03013777

A Trial of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Familial Dysautonomia

An Open-Label Pilot Trial of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Familial Dysautonomia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 15 (actual)
• Sponsor: NYU Langone Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To determine the effect of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in the severity of anxiety and depression in adult patients with familial dysautonomia. Patients will be enrolled in an 8-week CBT program. All CBT sessions will be done either in person at the NYU Dysautonomia Center or over the phone to help accommodate disability and potential physical limitations of our patient population.

Detailed description

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), defined as a program of interventions that utilize education to teach relaxation, healthy coping skills, stress management, assertiveness training in order to help the individual identify and correct maladaptive beliefs in combination with education to help practice symptom reduction and improve quality of life and function. Patients will participate in eight forty-five minute sessions of CBT with a mental health therapist in order to help treat generalized anxiety disorder, anxiety disorder due to another medical condition (familial dysautonomia), major depressive disorder, persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia), substance/medication- induced depressive disorder, depressive disorder due to another medical condition.

Conditions

• Dysthymia
• Anxiety Disorders
• Familial Dysautonomia
• Paroxysmal Hypertension
• Autosomal Recessive Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	8-week CBT Program

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-12-06
• Primary completion: 2018-07-20
• Completion: 2018-07-20
• First posted: 2017-01-06
• Last updated: 2019-01-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States