NCT04206930

Impact of Art Therapy on Alexithymia in People With Alcohol Use Disorder

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 128 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Angers · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Art therapy support combined with standard care for people with an alcohol use disorder coming to a day hospital for withdrawal could be beneficial compared to standard care alone because it would improve the alexithymia of these patients, helping them to better identify their feelings and / or emotions, and improve their self-confidence, their self-esteem self and their oral communication.

Detailed description

Alexithymia is an inability to identify and describe one's emotions associated with outward thinking. Frequently found in people with an alcohol use disorder, a true mental handicap, alexithymia has been clearly identified as a relapse factor in addictive problems related to alcohol. The ALEXART study intends to study the evolution of alexithymia in people with an alcohol use disorder hosted in an Addictology Day Hospital unit through the use of an approach non-drug that is art therapy. Our hypothesis is that art therapy can help patients with alcohol use disorders to develop a better understanding of their own behaviors, to name their emotions and feelings, and to improve their communication with others and thereby be able to choose to change their behavior.

Conditions

• Alexithymia
• Alcohol Use Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Art Therapy	1 session of 2 hours per week in a closed group for 10 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-12-13
• Primary completion: 2020-01-07
• Completion: 2022-12-13
• First posted: 2019-12-20
• Last updated: 2019-12-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France