Process-Based Psychological Processes in Alcohol Use Disorder: A Case-Control Study Using PBAT, PHQ-9, and GAD-7
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 200
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Process-Based Assessment Tool
研究概览
简要总结
This observational study investigates differences in psychological processes and emotional symptoms between individuals with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) and a non-clinical control group. PBAT, PHQ-9, and GAD-7 will be used. MANCOVA will test group differences controlling for demographics.
详细描述
The present study is grounded in the process-based approach to psychopathology, which emphasizes the identification and modification of core psychological processes underlying mental disorders, rather than focusing exclusively on categorical diagnoses.
A central theoretical framework guiding this approach is the Extended Evolutionary Meta-Model (EEMM), which conceptualizes psychological functioning and psychopathology through evolutionary principles:
- Variation - the ability to generate flexible and adaptive behavioral responses
- Selection - the capacity to choose behaviors aligned with personal goals and contextual demands
- Retention - the maintenance and consolidation of adaptive behaviors over time
- Context - sensitivity to environmental and situational factors influencing behavior
According to this model, psychopathology (including Alcohol Use Disorder) is characterized by psychological inflexibility, maladaptive behavioral selection, and poor retention of functional strategies, often in interaction with contextual insensitivity.
These processes operate across multiple domains, including affect, cognition, attention, motivation, self, and overt behavior.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Case Control
- 时间视角
- Cross Sectional
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •age ≥18, the ability to provide informed consent, no psychiatric diagnosis (for the control group).
排除标准
- •severe cognitive impairment, psychosis, inability to complete questionnaires.
研究组 & 干预措施
Clinical
AUD diagnosis
Control
Healthy participants
结局指标
主要结局
Process-Based Assessment Tool
时间窗: After enrollment (single time point).
The scale involves the depiction of psychological and behavioral processes involved in adaptation and maladaptation, according to the Extended Evolutionary Meta-Model. The scale includes 18 items, each involving a stand-alone, individual score, indicating the degree to which the responder engages in the specific process. The scale comprises both positive and negative behavioral strategies.
次要结局
- Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9)(After enrollment (single time point).)
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7)(After enrollment (single time point).)
研究者
Octavian Cosmin Popa
Associate Professor Dr.
George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology of Targu Mures