NCT05082922

Implementation of the Hybrid Treatment in Clinical Care. A SCED.

Implementation of a Transdiagnostic Emotion-focused Treatment for Comorbid Emotional Problems and Chronic Pain in Clinical Care. A Sequential Replicated and Randomized Single Case Experimental Design (SCED).

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Örebro University, Sweden · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In society today, mental health problems, specifically stress-, anxiety- and depressive disorders, are a primary cause of long-term sick leave, leading to significant societal costs and suffering. One important issue hindering implementation of successful treatments is that there is a marked co-occurrence between these problems and somatic health problems, such as different types of pain. An important key to solving this problem is to develop a more integrated conceptualization of, and treatment model for, these patients' health problems. Specifically, one way to understand the co-occurrence between mental and somatic health problems is offered by the 'transdiagnostic' perspective. The aim of this project is to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of a transdiagnostic emotion-focused treatment protocol in clinical context. The treatment addresses comorbid mental (stress, anxiety- and depressive) and somatic health (pain) problems and targets core emotion regulation processes that are hypothesized to maintain and exacerbate these problems.

Conditions

• Emotional Problem
• Chronic Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Hybrid treatment	Transdiagnostic emotion-focused treatment provided by a psychologist with, when needed, support of a medical doctor (ensuring adherence to medical guidelines) and a physiotherapist (providing assessment and treatment support in exposure for physical activities). Depending on the length of the waiting period (randomly assigned to be either 4, 5 or 6 weeks), the treatment period varies between 14-16 weeks and contains 10-15 sessions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-10-01
• Primary completion: 2023-05-01
• Completion: 2023-12-31
• First posted: 2021-10-19
• Last updated: 2023-05-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden