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Imaginal Exposure for Hoarding Disorder

NCT03734705 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 32

Last updated 2025-05-29

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Summary

The present study will test a potential new treatment strategy, imaginal exposure, for hoarding disorder. Although cognitive behavioral therapy often reduces hoarding, some people do not want to start, or cannot handle, that option. To help such individuals, the present study will provide imaginal exposure therapy to people with hoarding disorder, wherein they imagine discarding possessions as a way of becoming acclimated to the idea. We predict that imaginal exposure will improve hoarding symptoms as well as two psychological experiences linked to the condition: intolerance of uncertainty and emotional avoidance.

Conditions

  • Hoarding Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Imaginal Exposure Writing

Imaginal exposure is a psychotherapy strategy that has been studied and shown to be helpful in the improvement of symptoms (e.g., anxiety, worry) for other psychiatric conditions, including excessive worry and obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms.

OTHER

Neutral Writing

Used in prior research as a control condition for imaginal exposure. Neutral writing will involve writing about what one would do on a day off work or school.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Katie Fracalanza, PhD · Stanford University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-01-13
Primary Completion
2021-01-27
Completion
2021-01-27

Countries

  • United States

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