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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Dissociative Seizures

NCT00688727 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 70

Last updated 2009-01-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether adults with disoociative (psychogenic non-epileptic) seizures receiving cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) show a greater reduction in seizures and health service use and greater improvement in employment status and overall psychosocial functioning than patients who receive standard care.

Conditions

  • Dissociative Seizures

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

CBT

CBT, up to 12 sessions.

BEHAVIORAL

Standard Care

Routine review by neuropsychiatrist in outpatient clinic

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Special Trustees for St Thomas' and Guy's Hospitals

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Laura Goldstein · Institute of Psychiatry

  • John Mellers · Maudsley Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2001-03-31
Primary Completion
2009-02-28
Completion
2009-02-28

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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