A Working Memory Training in Burnout Patients

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Burnout
• Interventions: Behavioral: Working memory training; Behavioral: Placebo training

• Registration Number: NCT02119962
• Lead Sponsor: Erasmus Medical Center

Brief Summary

Burnout patients show deficient working memory functioning. Several studies showed a training can increase working memory capacity. In the current study we explored whether training working memory can reduce burnout and burnout related symptoms and increase working memory capacity.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-06
• Status Verified: 2014-04
• Study First Submitted: 2014-04-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-04-18
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-04-18
• Study First Posted: 2014-04-22
• Last Update Posted: 2014-04-22
• Primary Completion: 2014-09

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: Not specified

Inclusion Criteria

• undifferentiated somatoform disorder with a work related cause

Exclusion Criteria

• age which exceeded the range of 18 to 67 years
• a severe major depressive episode
• substance dependence or abuse

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Working memory training	Working memory training	-
Placebo training	Placebo training	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in Utrechtse Burnout Scale (UBOS) score on pre and post training and two months after training	Baseline, post (4 weeks after baseline), after last session of cognitive behavioral therapy and follow-up (2 months after post-test)	The Dutch translation of the Maslach Burnout Inventory - General Survey (Schaufeli, Leiter, Maslach, \& Jackson, 1996), the Utrechtse Burnout Scale-A, measures the severity of burnout symptoms.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in Cognitive Failure Questionnaire (CFQ) score on pre and post training and two months after training	Baseline, post (4 weeks after baseline), after last session of cognitive behavioral therapy and follow-up (2 months after post-test)	The Cognitive Failure Questionnarie measures the frequency of participants' experienced cognitive failures regarding memory, action, perception and attention.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

HSK; 🇳🇱 Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands