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Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health of Patients With Skin Picking

NCT04522492 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 18

Last updated 2022-03-31

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Summary

Skin Picking Disorder (SPD) affects up to 10% of the general population, causing significant socioeconomic damage in 75% of affected individuals. It is characterized by the repeated habit of touching the skin itself, causing or aggravating wounds, with difficulty in controlling the habit. It is associated with anxiety disorders in about 20% of cases and with depressive disorder in about 50%. Patients with SPD have difficulties in regulating emotions, being more vulnerable to having their mental symptoms aggravated in face of stressful situations, such as the current coronavirus-19 pandemia. Among the treatments available to SPD, cognitive behavioral therapy is the only intervention superior to placebo, and there is still no medication approved by the FDA indicated specifically to SPD. The effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy was assessed in a randomized clinical trial with Brazilian patients with SPD, but its long-term benefit has not yet been evaluated. Additionally, telemedicine interventions can be effective and used during pandemia, but the effectiveness of internet delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for SPD is not clear yet.

Conditions

  • Skin Picking

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Internet-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

2 booster sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) delivered thru internet to patients previously treated with CBT. First session focus on understanding the symptoms of skin picking and training techniques to reverse the habit. Second session focus on comorbid symptoms of anxiety and depression, training strategies to improve it.

OTHER

Quality of life promotion

2 videos about quality of life promotion will be send to patients in the active control arm. In the first week, the videos will consist in: social support techniques and sleep hygiene. After one week, 2 another videos will be send, consisting in: guide about healthy diet and about physical exercise.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Carolina Blaya Dreher, PhD · Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-08-11
Primary Completion
2021-03-01
Completion
2022-03-17

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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