NCT06655688

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Family Members After a First Psychotic Attack

The Effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Self-Stigmatization, Coping With Stress and Psychological Resilience Levels of Family Members After First Psychotic Attack Diagnosis

• Status: Enrolling By Invitation
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of ACT administered online to family members on self-stigmatization, coping with stress, and psychological resilience levels after the first psychotic attack (FPA).

Detailed description

This study is a pretest, posttest, follow-up, randomized controlled experimental study. This study will be conducted with family members of individuals diagnosed with FPA who come to the psychiatry outpatient clinic of a training and research hospital. According to the results of G-power analysis, the minimum sample size of the study was calculated as 32 (intervention 16, control 16). Personal Information Form will be applied to the individuals before randomization. The computer-aided https://www.random.org/integers/ program will be used to assign the intervention and control groups without bias. It is planned that the intervention group will consist of 8-12 participants and the program will be implemented as two intervention groups. The Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Based Intervention Program will be implemented online in eight sessions. Each session will last 60-90 minutes on average. Two sessions will be held for one group per week. The control group will not receive any intervention from the researcher. The intervention groups will be followed up with a post-test after the program is completed and three months later, while the control group will be followed up with a post-test four weeks and three months later. In the preparation of the interventions and planning of the sessions based on ACT, the researcher utilized studies in the literature and the basic ACT training she had received. The sessions were prepared based on six components of psychological flexibility found at the basis of ACT.

Conditions

• First Psychotic Attack
• Family Members
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Acceptance and Commitment Therapy	Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Based Intervention Program was applied to the intervention group in eight sessions online. Each session will last an average of 60-90 minutes. There will be two sessions for one group per week.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-10-20
• Primary completion: 2024-11-30
• Completion: 2025-06-01
• First posted: 2024-10-23
• Last updated: 2025-05-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)