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Maintenance (vs. Change) of Critical Attitudes Towards Psychotherapy

NCT03594903 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2018-11-08

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Summary

The aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a video intervention, which was designed to improve therapy expectation of persons with critical attitudes towards psychotherapy via violating their expectations about therapy. Therefore, 120 participants will be recruited and randomized to two groups:

(1) An experimental group that is watching a video with patients (actors) that are giving oral information about their therapy and the mostly positive therapy outcome, (2) a control group that is watching a video with the same patients before therapy or after the first therapy session who are giving information about symptoms and their expectation on therapy. The primary outcome is the Milwaukee Psychotherapy Expectation Questionnaire (MPEQ) collected before and after the video.

Conditions

  • Negative Therapy Expectation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

video intervention (therapy expectation violation)

The investigators asked experts (psychotherapist and scientists in the area of clinical psychology) about typical therapy expectation violations in therapy and searched the literature for information about typical therapy processes and outcomes. Having these information they designed a script for the experimental video. The patients in the video are played by actors aged from 28 to 58 years (two male and two female actors). Patients are representing common mental disorders (depression, anxiety disorder, alcohol addiction, depression after physical disease). The abbreviated name, age and disorder of the patients is displayed for 3 seconds in the video. The patients are giving information about the mostly positive outcome and the process of their therapy. All participants are watching a video with all patients (7 minutes). The videos (control and experimental group) have been evaluated by 12 experts (psychotherapist and scientists in the area of clinical psychology).

BEHAVIORAL

video intervention (symptoms+ expectation)

Participants in the control group are watching a video with the same patients (actors) as in the experimental video. In this video patients are shown before or after the first therapy session. They are giving information about symptoms and their expectation on therapy but NOT about therapy outcome.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Philipps University Marburg

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-11-30
Primary Completion
2019-01-31
Completion
2019-01-31

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