NCT05634486

Efficacy of the Multidisciplinary Treatment to the Quality of Life of With Functional Movement Disorders

Efficacy Study of the Multidisciplinary Therapeutic Approach to the Quality of Life of Patients With Functional Movement Disorders and Their Caregivers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fundación Pública Andaluza para la gestión de la Investigación en Sevilla · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Randomized-clinical trial of multidisciplinary approach versus psychoeducation in patients with functional movement disorders: impact to their quality of life and their caregivers' quality of life. Patients with functional movement disorders are randomized in two arms of a one-month treatment (physiotherapy + cognitive-behavioral therapy versus psychoeducational as sham intervention) with a 3-month and 5-month follow-up where the investigators will measure the change in the patients' and caregivers' quality of life. Movement disorders specialists will review the severity of symptoms as blinded raters in the 3th-month and 5th-month follow-up.

Conditions

• Functional Neurological Disorder
• Functional Movement Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Multidisciplinary therapeutic approach (physiotherapy plus cognitive-behavioral therapy)	Patients randomly allocated to this arm of intervention will receive an ambulatory therapy regime of twelve 60-minute physiotherapy sessions plus four 60-minute psychotherapy sessions throughout one month of treatment
OTHER	Psychoeducation (Sham intervention)	Patients randomly allocated to this arm of intervention will receive an ambulatory regime of four 60-minute non-organized psychoeducational sessions throughout one month of treatment.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-06-15
• Primary completion: 2023-08-31
• Completion: 2023-10-31
• First posted: 2022-12-02
• Last updated: 2024-02-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain