NCT05802758

CFT-focused Mental Health Intervention With Exposure Training for Youngsters

Compassion-focused Mental Health Intervention With Exposure Training in Virtual Reality for Youngsters Living in an Institution

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 144 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Helsinki University Central Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 15 Years – 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to explore if individual CFT-based intervention with exposure training in virtual reality decreases conduct disorder symptoms and callous-unemoitonal traits , as well as increases subjective emotional welbeing among 15-to-20 year-old male prisoners and boys placed to state's residential schools. We will also study factors that may predict adherence to the intervention. These factors include mental well-being, motivation, and working alliance. In addition, we will evaluate the costs of the program.

Conditions

• Conduct Disorder
• Psychopathic Personality Trait

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Psychopathy.comp and training in virtual reality (VR)	Psychopathy.comp is a CFT-based manualized program of 20 sessions a 60 min, on a weekly basis. During the CFT-intervention, partipants try out their new skills in a tailored VR setting (x5)

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-01-01
• Primary completion: 2028-09-30
• Completion: 2029-12-31
• First posted: 2023-04-07
• Last updated: 2023-08-01

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Finland