Emotion Regulation Group Skills Training for Adolescents and Parents

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Behavioral Symptoms; Emotional Instability
• Interventions: Behavioral: Adjunctive group emotion regulation skills training; Behavioral: Treatment as usual

• Registration Number: NCT03900533
• Lead Sponsor: Region Östergötland

Brief Summary

To evaluate if emotion regulation group therapy skills training for adolescents and parents is an efficacious treatment when delivered as adjunctive to treatment as usual compared to a control group consisting of treatment as usual.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2019-03-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-03-31
• Study Start: 2019-04-02
• Study First Posted: 2019-04-03
• Primary Completion: 2023-09-04
• Study Completion: 2023-09-04
• Status Verified: 2024-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-10-25
• Last Update Posted: 2024-10-29

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 119

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Adjunctive group emotion regulation skills training	Adjunctive group emotion regulation skills training	Participants will receive a 7 week group emotion regulation skills training together with parents adjacent to treatment as usual provided by the child- and adolescent psychiatric clinic
Treatment as usual (TAU)	Treatment as usual	Participants will receive treatment as usual for 7 weeks as provided by the child- and adolescent psychiatric clinic

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Difficulties with Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)	Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months	Difficulties with Emotion Regulation Scale measures difficulties with emotion regulation. It contains a total of 36 items that are rated on a Likert scale between 1-5. Total score ranges between 36-180 with higher scores indicating more difficulties with emotion regulation. The scale has 6 subscales: nonacceptance (ranging from 6-30); goals (ranging from 5-25); impulse (ranging from 6-30); awareness (ranging from 6-30); strategies (ranging from 8-40) and clarity (ranging from 5-25).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Beck's Anxiety Inventory (BAI)	Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months	Beck's Anxiety Inventory measures symptoms of anxiety with 21 items rated on a four-graded scale (0-3). Total scores range from 0-63. Higher scores indicate higher levels of anxiety.
Montgomery Åsberg Depression Rating Scale, self-report version (MADRS-S).	Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months	Montgomery Åsberg Depression Rating Scale measures symptoms of depression. Its main purpose is to monitor the development of symptoms during treatment. The scale consists of 9 items, which are graded from zero to six. Total scores range from 0-54. Higher scores indicate higher level of depression symptoms.
Global Assessment Scale for Children (C-GAS)	Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months	The Global Assessment Scale for Children measures global functioning on a scale that ranges from 0 to 100 with higher scores indicating higher global functioning.
Brunnsviken Brief Quality of Life (BBQ)	Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months	Brunnsviken Brief Quality of Life measures quality of Life in a total of 12 items (6 different areas of life). Satisfaction and how important the different areas of life are, are rated from 0-4. Total scores range from 0-96 with high scores indicating higher levels of quality of life.
Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20)	Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months	Toronto Alexithymia Scale measures alexithymia. It contains a total of 20 items with 3 subscales (difficulties describing feelings: 7 items ranging from 7-35, difficulties identifying feelings: 5 items ranging from 5-25 and externally oriented thinking: 8 items ranging from 8-40). Total scores range from 20-100 with higher scores indicating higher levels of alexithymia.
Levels of Emotional Awareness (LEAS-C)	Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months	Measures awareness of emotions, i.e., the ability to identify and describe own and others' emotions. The children's version used in the present study consists of 12 situations, in which the child is asked to describe which emotions he/she and another person would experience in a given situation. Answers are rated by an external rater on a five-grade scale divided into the three subscales: self, other and total.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Region Östergötland BUP-kliniken; 🇸🇪 Linköping, Sweden