A Randomized Waitlist-controlled Trial of Web-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Hoarding Disorder
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Hoarding Disorder
- Sponsor
- Utah State University
- Enrollment
- 80
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Saving Inventory-Revised (SI-R; Frost et al., 2004)
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 5 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
This study will help to determine if acceptance and commitment therapy delivered as a web-based intervention is a useful treatment for hoarding disorder and evaluate whether or not web-based treatment for hoarding is credible and acceptable. It may also help identify novel processes of change in hoarding treatment such as psychological inflexibility, mindfulness, and self-stigma.
Detailed Description
The efficacy of an ACT self-help website for hoarding will be assessed through a randomized, waitlist-controlled trial. Participants will be recruited from within the United States through a variety of channels. Given the need to recruit a targeted sample with clinical levels of hoarding symptoms, online advertisements through Facebook and Google AdWords will be the primary recruitment method. Participants will complete an initial brief screening, provide consent, and then complete a baseline survey. Each of these steps will be completed online and participants will be automatically guided from each step to the next. That is, those who screen as eligible will be automatically directed to an online consent form, and those who provide consent will be automatically directed to begin the initial online baseline survey. They will be randomly assigned automatically upon completing the baseline survey to either use the ACT self-help website and receive supportive coaching for the next 8 weeks, or wait for the next 8 weeks. After 8 weeks, participants will be asked to complete a posttreatment survey. They will be asked to complete a final, follow-up survey after an additional 4 weeks after the posttreatment survey. After the follow-up survey is completed, waitlisted participants will be provided with access to the website. The website will implement a self-help version of ACT. Participants will be asked to complete 16 brief self-help website sessions, each taking around 15-20 minutes to finish, twice a week for eight weeks. Participants assigned to the website condition will also receive coaching.The purpose of coaching will be to help participants engage with the website and adhere to the intervention. Coaching will consist of an initial phone call of 10-15 minutes followed by weekly email contact during the 8-week treatment period. Coaches will be graduate students trained in clinical psychology.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •18 years old or older
- •Living in the USA
- •Seeking help for clutter and/or hoarding
- •Interested in testing a self-help website
- •Scoring at or above the clinical cutoff of 41 on the Saving Inventory-Revised
Exclusion Criteria
- •17 years or younger
- •Living outside the USA
- •Not seeking help for clutter and/or hoarding
- •Not interested in testing a self-help website
- •Scoring below 41 on the Saving Inventory-Revised
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Saving Inventory-Revised (SI-R; Frost et al., 2004)
Time Frame: Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline)
A self-report measure of hoarding symptoms
Secondary Outcomes
- Sheehan Disability Scale (Sheehan, Harnett-Sheehan, & Raj, 1996)(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline) and follow-up (12 weeks after baseline))
- Stigma of hoarding items (Chasson et al., 2018)(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline) and follow-up (12 weeks after baseline))
- Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire - Acting with Awareness (FFMQ-AA; Baer, Smith, Hopkins, Krietemeyer, & Toney, 2006)(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline) and follow-up (12 weeks after baseline))
- Valuing Questionnaire-Progress (VQ-Progress; Smout, Davies, Burns, & Christie, 2014)(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline) and follow-up (12 weeks after baseline))
- General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12; Goldberg, 1978)(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline) and follow-up (12 weeks after baseline))
- Acceptance and Action Questionnaire for Hoarding (AAQH; Krafft et al., in press)(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline) and follow-up (12 weeks after baseline))
- System Usability Scale (Tullis & Albert, 2008)(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline))
- Novel satisfaction item 3(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline))
- Novel satisfaction item 6(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline))
- Novel satisfaction item 8(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline))
- Novel satisfaction item 9(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline))
- Novel satisfaction item 13(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline))
- Treatment Evaluation Inventory-Short Form (TEI-SF; Kelley, Heffer, Gresham, & Elliott, 1989).(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline))
- Novel satisfaction item 2(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline))
- Novel satisfaction item 4(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline))
- Novel satisfaction item 7(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline))
- Novel satisfaction item 10(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline))
- Novel satisfaction item 11(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline))
- Credibility/Expectancy Questionnaire (CEQ; Devilly & Borkovec, 2000).(After using first website session (approximately 0-1 weeks after baseline))
- Novel satisfaction item 5(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline))
- Clinical Global Impression - Improvement (CGI-I; Guy, 1976).(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline) and follow-up (12 weeks after baseline))
- Novel satisfaction item 1(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline))
- Novel satisfaction item 12(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline))
- Novel satisfaction item 14(Posttreatment (8 weeks after baseline))