NCT04580966

IBSR Intervention for Adults Who Stutter

The Effect of "Inquiry Based Stress Reduction" (IBSR) on the Overall Stuttering Experience, Quality of Life and Psychological Indicators Among Adults Who Stutter a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 56 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Stuttering is a speech disorder that can cause disturbances in the timing and flow of speech. It is often accompanied not only by verbal difficulties but also by negative impact on several psycho-social aspects in the life of the people who stutter. Recently, clinical evidences have shown the effectiveness of Inquiry Based Stress Reduction (IBSR) technique to improve psychosocial symptoms and enhance well-being in clinical and non-clinical samples. IBSR, the clinical application of Byron Katie's "The Work", enables individuals to mindfully spot and investigate in a systematic and comprehensive manner thoughts that lead to stress and suffering by a series of questions and turnarounds. IBSR was found to have significantly positive influence on the quality of life, mental well-being and stress management in a variety of populations which suffer from elevated levels of stress, suffering, tension and anxiety, and to enhance resilience of non-clinical general population. In our research we hypothesized that: 1. Adults who stutter will have high levels of anxiety, and low levels of psychological flexibility and satisfaction with life. 2. IBSR intervention will improve experience of stuttering in adults who stutter. 3. IBSR will decrease anxiety levels and enhance psychological flexibility and satisfaction with life.

Conditions

• Stuttering

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Inquiry Based Stress Reduction (IBSR) workshop	The IBSR intervention workshop included weekly group meetings (3.5 hours/meeting) for 12 weeks. During the workshop, participants were encouraged to identify and inquire their stressful thoughts. Using self-inquiry practices participants were taught to increase awareness of their thoughts and feelings, to observe their emotional and physical responses during situations perceived by them as stressful, and allow their mind to return to its true, peaceful, creative nature. Through the process of self-inquiry, participants took an active role in investigating their stressful thoughts, and by this regulated their stress and managed symptoms and emotions, thus enabled them to cope better with the psycho-social consequences of the stuttering.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-11-05
• Primary completion: 2018-08-23
• Completion: 2018-08-23
• First posted: 2020-10-09
• Last updated: 2020-10-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel