Internet-based therapy for people bereaved by suicide: a randomized controlled study
Phase 4
- Conditions
- Prolonged grief disorderF43.2Adjustment disorders
- Registration Number
- DRKS00025009
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitätsklinikum Leipzig
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 58
Inclusion Criteria
18 years or older
- loss of a loved one due to suicide
- time since loss at least 14 months
- meeting the criteria for prolonged grief disorder
- access to the Internet
Exclusion Criteria
- severe depressive disorder (BDI-II > 28): this criterion was later removed
- increased value in suicide scale, value >3 (Yale evaluation of Suicide scale): this criterion was later removed
- history of dissociative or psychotic symptoms (Brief Symptom Inventory, Derogatis, 1993)
- severe dependence or substance abuse disorder (questions about consuming alcohol or drugs)
- ongoing psychotherapy
- unstable psychopharmacological treatment in the last 6 weeks
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Grief intensity was measured with the German version of the Inventory of Complicated Grief (ICG-D, Lumbeck, Brandstätter, & Geissner, 2012) and the Grief Experience Questionnaire (GEQ, Barret & Scott, 1989).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method depressive symptoms (BDI-II), subjective impairment by physical and mental symptoms (BSI);<br><br>measured at the beginning, after completion/waiting (5 weeks) and 3,6,12 months after intervention