NCT05759091

Effect of Applying Cognitive Defusion Techniques on Mindful Awareness, Cognitive Fusion and Believability of Delusions Among Clients With Schizophrenia

The Effect of Applying Cognitive Defusion Techniques on Mindful Awareness, Cognitive Fusion and Believability of Delusions Among Clients With Schizophrenia: A Randomized Control Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (actual)
• Sponsor: Alexandria University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Schizophrenia causes hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking, resulting in decreased functioning and lifelong therapy.Delusion believability is the degree of belief in the truth of one's subjective experiences as representations of reality. It was unpleasant, typically accompanied by a suspicious, strange tension. Delusional belief is seen as a means of resolving tension and conflict in cognition and experience. Previous studies have shown that cognitive defusion strategies help people become more aware of their surroundings, accept their thoughts and feelings, and become more psychologically adjustable. defusion is crucial in reducing medication-resistant psychotic symptoms such delusions in schizophrenia patients. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effects of cognitive defusion techniques on psychological flexibility, mindful awareness, cognitive fusion, and believability of delusions among clients with schizophrenia. Research Hypothesizes * Clients who participated in cognitive defusion techniques had more psychological flexibility and mindful awareness than the control group. * Clients who participated in cognitive defusion techniques had less cognitive fusion and delusional believability than the control group.

Conditions

• Schizophrenia; Psychosis
• Nurse's Role
• Delusions

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	cognitive defusion techniques	Defusing from your delusions helps to lessen their negative impact on your behaviour. So defusion is a vital step towards being able to act flexibly, in accordance with core values, instead of being dictated to by inflexible rules, reasons, judgments etc. There are numerous exercises in ACT Companion with a focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts which would benefit from defusion, or building defusion skills, most of which are found in the open up section of the app. Some of these are reading and writing exercises, and some are guided meditation audio recordings. ACT Companion defusion exercises 1. Letting go 2. Not good enough 3. Thought defusion 4. Observing your thoughts 5. Labelling thoughts and feelings 6. I am having the thought that..... 7. milk.milk.milk exercise 8. silly voice exercise, passenger on the bus, tug of war with a monster

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-09-10
• Primary completion: 2022-11-20
• Completion: 2023-01-20
• First posted: 2023-03-08
• Last updated: 2023-07-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt