Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) for Anxiety Diagnoses in a Primary Care Setting

Not Applicable

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Anxiety Disorders; Psychotherapy; Psychiatric &or Mood Disorder
• Interventions: Other: Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

• Registration Number: NCT05863637
• Lead Sponsor: Linnaeus University

Brief Summary

Living with anxiety often means great suffering for the person affected. The trend points to a continued increase in anxiety problems in the population, especially in the 18-44 age group. Inadequate treatment of this condition can lead to long-term sick leave, isolation, exclusion and, in the worst case, to death. The treatment methods that are available in primary care today help some but far from all. Therefore, the investigators want to scientifically evaluate a shorter version of a proven emotion-focused psychotherapy in order to increase the treatment range for this patient group. The aim of this project is to, in a primary care setting, test and evaluate an intensive, emotion-focused short-term therapy, ISTDP (Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy) for patients with an anxiety diagnosis. The method is well-proven on patients with more severe mental conditions (personality disorders) with good results, but the treatment has only been tested to a limited extent on patients with anxiety symptoms. The investigators want to investigate the effectiveness of treating various anxiety states for primary care patients. The treatment is expected to provide an addition to today's methods, which overall will provide better treatment results for this, increasing in number, group of patients who often seek primary care.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2023-04-27
• Status Verified: 2023-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-05-08
• Study First Posted: 2023-05-18
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-05-29
• Last Update Posted: 2023-05-31
• Study Start: 2023-09
• Primary Completion: 2025-08
• Study Completion: 2025-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

• Primary Care patients with primary anxiety diagnoses at a Health Care clinic in Sweden. Sufficient language competence in Swedish is required of the participants to understand, read, speak and write.

Exclusion Criteria

• Major reading-writing and learning difficulties, severe psychiatric problems such as psychosis, eating disorder, current major depression, recurrent depression, severe trauma, acute crisis reaction, exhaustion, acute risk of suicide (assessed according to the suicide scale), addiction.
• Diagnosed specific phobia or obsessive-compulsive disorder that must be primarily treated with CBT. Concurrent psychological treatment, anxiety-relieving medication such as benzodiazepines, or recently started antidepressant treatment (< 3 months of treatment) are also exclusion criteria for participation in the study.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Treated	Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy	Participants are their own controls when they are on the waiting list before treatment, and they will later be treated with the ISTDP.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) scorings	Changes in scorings from baseline scorings to scorings after 9-10 months.	Self-report measure. The GAD-7 consists of 7 items which are scored 0-3, with a total score ranging from 0-21. Higher scores correspond to worse outcome.; measures

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The Perceived Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) scorings	Changes in scorings from baseline scorings to scorings after 9-10 months.	Self-report measure. The PHQ-9 consists of 9 items, which are scored from 0-3 and a total score ranging from 0-27. Higher scores correspond to worse outcome.
The Brunnsvikens Brief Quality of Life Inventory (BBQ) scorings	Changes in scorings from baseline scorings to scorings after 9-10 months.	Self-report measure. The BBQ has a total of 12 items covering 6 life areas. Possible total score range is 0-96. Higher scores correspond to a better outcome.
The Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS) scorings	Changes in scorings from baseline scorings to scorings after 9-10 months.	Self-report measure. The PDSS consists of 7 items, which are scored from 0-4, with a total score ranging from 0-28. Higher scores correspond to worse outcome.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Region Kalmar; 🇸🇪 Kalmar, Sweden