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Investigating the effectiveness of cognitive-analytical therapy on personality disorders.

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Antisocial Personality Disorder.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
F60.2
Registration Number
IRCT20240212060971N1
Lead Sponsor
The University of Khatam
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Recruiting
Sex
Male
Target Recruitment
40
Inclusion Criteria

The condition for entering this research is to obtain scores above the cut-off line in the Indicators related to Antisocial Personality Disorder in Milon's Clinical Multi-axis Inventory, the fourth edition (MCMI-4).

Exclusion Criteria

Being non cooperative at the part of participants in the process of taking the Milon's Clinical Inventory.
Not having reading and writing literacy and not having a healthy sense of hearing and the ability to speak.

Study & Design

Study Type
interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
The level Ego strengths, which is approximately the ability of a person to manage her/his self when faced with adversity. Timepoint: Before and after the interventions. Method of measurement: In order to measure this variable, Psychological Inventory of Ego Strength (PIES) will be used. This Inventory has 64 questions and statements are graded on a 5-degree Likert scale. The highest score a person can get is 300 and the lowest score is 60. A high score in this test means a high level of ego competence.
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Emotional stability, which is almost a person's ability to maintain a cool head when faced with extreme exciting situations. Timepoint: Before and after the interventions. Method of measurement: In order to measure the emotional stability of the subject, the individual's score in the neuroticism index (psychopath) in the questionnaire of the big five factors of personality traits; Neo; The short form of 60 questions is considered in reverse, meaning that the higher the score in this index, the lower the emotional stability and vice versa.;Communication skills, which are the ability of a person to establish and maintain effective interpersonal communication. Timepoint: Before and after the interventions. Method of measurement: In order to measure communication skills, a questionnaire is used as a communication skills test. The scoring of each question varies from one to five. In reverse questions, scoring will also be done in reverse. Finally, the total score is obtained from the sum of the scores.
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