Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences in people with an At Risk Mental States for psychosis (MUSE-ARMS)

orthumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust0 个研究点目标入组 24 人开始时间: 2019年1月17日最近更新: 2022年9月12日

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试验速览

2020 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33320425/ (added 08/06/2021)

•Participants will:
•1. Be in contact with Early Intervention in Psychosis services and accepted on the ARMs pathways following assessment by the Comprehensive Assessment of At Risk Mental state (CAARMs)
•2. Have a history of hallucinations for at least six weeks or a recent history of brief but intense hallucinations.
•3. Be aged 16 and above
•4. Consider their unusual sensory experiences (voices or visions) as a main presenting difficulty, and indicate that they would like to receive a psychological intervention specifically designed to address hallucinations
•5. Have the capacity to provide informed consent
•6. Be judged by their clinician to be clinically stable for the preceding 4 weeks

•Potential participants will not be eligible if:
•1. The experience of hallucinations/psychosis has a strong biological basis (owing to traumatic brain injuries, organic psychoses, or dementia)
•2. They have insufficient command of English to complete the research interviews and measures
•3. They have an intellectual disability, or severe cognitive dysfunction that might preclude their ability to provide informed consent, understand the study procedure and/or fully appreciate the potential consequences of their participation
•4. They have a primary diagnosis of substance misuse dependency
•5. They are identified by the care team as being too acutely unwell to participate in the research

发起方

orthumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust