Imagery Rescripting with or without preceding Cognitive Restructuring: a randomized clinical trial

Recruiting

Conditions: stemmingsstoornissen en angststoornissen
depression
fear problem
problems with personality
10034726

Registration Number: NL-OMON46092

Lead Sponsor: niversiteit Maastricht

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Recruiting

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 70

Inclusion Criteria

- Meet the diagnostic criteria of a one or more diagnoses according to the DSM IV either/and on axis I (clinical disorders) and II (personality disorders)
- Free of medication or at least 2 months of stably set medication and maintaining the same dosage during participation of this study
- Age between 18 and 65 years
- IQ above 80
- Able to read and write in Dutch

Exclusion Criteria

- Meet the diagnostic criteria of posttraumatic stress disorder an autism spectrum disorder or psychotic disorder accordingaccording to the DSM IV
- Suicidality or other self-damaging behaviour or damaging behaviour towards others
- Habitual use of benzodiazepines. In case of incidental use of benzodiazepines or betablockers participants are asked to refrain from this medication at the testing day. Participants using SSRI*s, TCA*s, or antipsychotic medication are asked to keep their medication stable till after the one week follow-up.
- Treatment experience with CBT
- Treatment experience with ImRs

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>The difference between the encapsulated belief scores at pre-test, post-test<br /><br>and one week follow up are the primary outcome measures. A scale ranging from 0<br /><br>(not at all) to 100 (extremely) is used. </p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>Change in vividness and distress of the aversive childhood memory addressed is<br /><br>measured on a scale ranging 0 to 100.<br /><br>To examine the reduction of overall symptomatology The Brief Symptom Inventory<br /><br>(BSI) is included as a secondary parameter.<br /><br>To check whether different emotional states are triggered throughout the study<br /><br>the Modified Differential Emotions Scale (mDES) will be used.<br /><br>During the one-week-follow-up the experience of CR and ImRs is investigated<br /><br>with a qualitative interview. </p><br>