Culturally Adapted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Prevention of Self Harm

Summary

Aim:

To adapt and develop a culturally appropriate psychological intervention and test its feasibility, and acceptability for the patients presenting to general hospital following self-harm in Karachi Pakistan.

Primary hypothesis:

Patients who receive cognitive behavioral therapy will show significant decrease in suicidal ideation as compared to patients with treatment as usual.

Design:

Randomized Control Trial

Setting:

Medical Departments of General Hospitals in Karachi.

Participants:

A total of 200 self harm patients will be randomized to psychological intervention and treatment as usual arm.

Intervention:

Culturally Adapted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Outcome measure:

Beck Suicidal Ideation Scale

Conditions

• Attempted Suicide
• Depression

Interventions

OTHER

Other

No interventions other than the culturally adapted manualised cognitive behavioral therapy

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Manchester

  collaborator OTHER

• Dow University of Health Sciences

  collaborator OTHER

• Abbasi Shaheed Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Nusrat Husain, MD · Pakistan Institute of Learning and Living, University of Manchester

• Nasim Chaudhry, MRCPsych, MD · University of Manchester

• Imran Chaudhry, MD · University of Manchester

• Salahuddin Afsar, FRCP · Dow University of Health Sciences Karachi

• Meher Husain, MD · Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning

• Raza Ur-Rehman, FCPS · Dow University of Health Sciences

• Batool Fatima · Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning

• Farooq Naeem, MRCPsych · Pakistan Institute of Learning and Living, University of Southampton

• Munir Hamirani, FCPS · Abbasi Shaheed Hospital

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

16 Years

Max Age

64 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2010-03-31

Primary Completion

2012-03-31

Completion

2012-10-31

Countries

• Pakistan

Study Locations