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Emotion Focused Therapy for Competitive Athletes

NCT05896436 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 25

Last updated 2025-05-06

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Summary

This project will be a pilot study to test the feasibility of using Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) among competitive athletes experiencing mild-to-moderate depression or anxiety. To test whether the intervention works, the researchers will assess athletes' emotion dysregulation, symptoms of mood disorders (anxiety and depression), sport-related distress, subjective performance satisfaction, and well-being. In addition to assessing athlete outcomes, key aspects to be examined in the pilot study include the recruitment and randomization procedures, informed consent procedures, data collection tools, implementation of the intervention, and retention of participants. Feasibility will be assessed by recruitment (willingness to be randomized, number of eligible participants in the recruitment process). Retention will be assessed by the number of athletes who continue or discontinue attendance. Participants' experiences in the intervention will be assessed via qualitative interviews to gain in-depth information about their perceptions of the intervention.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Emotion Focused Therapy

12 sessions of Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT). The focus in EFT is to promote the individual's experiencing and facilitate participants' self-disclosure and openness to their own experience, rather than the therapist's agenda or techniques. Key processes within EFT include helping people overcome their avoidance of emotion, maintaining a collaborative focus on emotions, and exploring emotions in therapy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Toronto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Katherine Tamminen, PhD · University of Toronto

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-10-07
Primary Completion
2024-06-25
Completion
2024-06-25

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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