NCT04408651

Low Intensity Internet Therapy for Chronic Illness (@LIIT.CI)

Low Intensity Internet Therapy for Chronic Illness (@LIIT.CI): Testing the Efficacy of ACT and CFT Interventions

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 54 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Coimbra · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Chronic illness (CI) presents a significant and negative effect on quality of life and mental health. Further, emotion regulation has been considered of particular importance on the determination of chronic patients' well-being. Evidence suggests that Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an effective approach to improve psychological health in patients with CI. Further, there is some, although limited, evidence, that self-compassion training may be also useful in this context, and the inclusion of self-compassion elements in ACT interventions has even been the focus of attention by recent studies. Nevertheless, no study yet has compared the efficacy of these two types of intervention in CI. This is the aim of the present project - to analyse, in a low intensity eHealth intervention context, whether ACT or Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) present superiority over the other in improving mental health and illness-related outcomes in CI.

Conditions

• Chronic Medical Conditions

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	LIIT.CI ACT	4-week online self-management intervention based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and adapted to people with chronic medical conditions
BEHAVIORAL	LIIT.CI CFT	4-week online self-management intervention based on Compassion-Focused Therapy and adapted to people with chronic medical conditions

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-05-01
• Primary completion: 2020-12-31
• Completion: 2021-08-31
• First posted: 2020-05-29
• Last updated: 2022-05-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Portugal