NCT05018312

Modified Collaborative Assessment VS Standard Assessment on Readiness For Psychotherapy Among Patients With Anxiety

Social Phobia and Evasiveness: A Feasibility, Superiority, Randomized Clinical Trial of the Effect of Modified Collaborative Assessment VS Standard Assessment on Patient's Readiness For Psychotherapy (CO-ASSM-RCT)

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Psychiatric Research Unit, Region Zealand, Denmark · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The present study wish to compare the preliminarily effects and feasibility of Modified Collaborative Assessment (MCA) - a novel therapeutic approach to diagnostic assessment - with assessment-as-usual among patients with evasiveness as a core psychopathological feature in a randomised controlled study design.

Detailed description

The present study wish to compare the preliminarily effects and feasibility of Modified Collaborative Assessment (MCA) - a novel therapeutic approach to diagnostic assessment - with assessment-as-usual (AAU) among patients with evasiveness as a core psychopathological feature in a randomised controlled study design. The study will include and randomise 42 patients 1:1 to either MCA or AAU, which will be administered as a pre-treatment to the standard psychotherapeutic intervention they will receive in the psychotherapeutic clinic. MCA will utilize standardised psychological tests administered in collaboration with the patients, in order to thorough diagnose the included patients. The tests available will be the Present State Examination (PSE), the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 Personality Disorders (SCID-5-PD), the Screen for Cognitive Impairment in Psychiatry (SCIP), the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2), the Examination of anomalous self-experience (EASE), the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV), the Level of Personality Functioning - Brief Form 2.0 (LPFS-BF), the Personality Inventory for DSM-5, 36 item version (PID-36) and the Conners´ Adult ADHD Rating Scales (CAARS). Data are gathered through a number of questionnaires from patients prior to randomization (T0), at end of MCA (T1) and after four weeks of psychotherapy (T2) - absolute time depend on clinical logistics and timing of group therapy onset.

Conditions

• Psychotherapy
• Social Anxiety Disorder
• Personality Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Modified Collaborative Assessment (MCA)	The Modified Collaborative Assessment (MCA) will be assessment of the patients that Is more thoroughly-done, and which will be inspired by the school of Therapeutic Assessment and Collaborative Assessment. It will include the EASE, SCID-interview, PSE, ADOS and SCIP-interviews.
BEHAVIORAL	Assessment as Usual (AAU)	Assessment as usual is the standard assessment the patients will receive in the clinic. It includes one or more interviews with a mental health professional in the clinic.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-09-01
• Primary completion: 2023-02-28
• Completion: 2023-12-30
• First posted: 2021-08-24
• Last updated: 2023-03-28

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Denmark